Brain trauma and psychological trauma can have devastating effects. Because trauma is not usually delivered by a surgeon but by a catastrophe, the effects can be hard to categorize.

Discussion section: Brain trauma and psychological trauma can have devastating effects. Because trauma is not usually delivered by a surgeon but by a catastrophe, the effects can be hard to categorize. Because concussions and other brain traumas are common, however, they deserve an attempt to figure them out.

Step 1: Watch the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=343ORgL3kIc    11 min., Crash Course Trauma & Addiction

Step 2: Read at least the abstract of this article: http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/hasherlab/PDF/2013%20Kapur%20et%20al%20positive%20clinical%20neuroscience.pdf

Step 3: Read all of this article: https://www.outsideonline.com/1907661/some-reassembly-required

Step 4: Address the following questions in one paragraph for each of the three question items:

Questions

1. How does acute stress differ from chronic stress?

2. It’s clear that people differ in their exposure to stressors. How do they differ in resilience as well?

3. Post responses of 75 to 100 words each to two of your fellow class members.