Dr. Bessel A. van der Kolk –Dr. Bruce D. Perry –Dr. Daniel J. SiegelKey neuroscientist experts on brain development and Developmental TraumaDr. Bessell van der Kolkis Founder and has been Medical Director of The Trauma Center in Boston for 30 years. He is Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School and Director of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Complex Trauma Network (NCTSN). He is past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He has written extensively about using neuroscience research to identify appropriate treatments for PTSD and completed the first NIMH-funded study of EMDR. As a clinical psychiatrist he has been researching trauma since the 1970s and participated in the VietnamVeterans Working Group led by psychiatrists Chaim Shatan and Robert Liftonwhich first presented PTSD to the APA in 1978, resulting in its first inclusion in DSM-3in 1980.He participated in the first neuroimaging study of PTSD in 1996,* in the first study to link Borderline Personality Disorderwith childhood trauma; and was co-principal investigator of the DSM-IV Field Trial for PTSD.In 2005 Dr. van der Kolk introduced the term Developmental Trauma Disorder and chaired the NCTSN DSM-V workgroupon Developmental Trauma Disorder presenting it to the APA for DSM-V (2013). **His latest work is his May 10, 2013 Yale video detailing the effort to have PTSD and DTD recognized and treated. See "Childhood Trauma, Affect Regulation, and Borderline Personality Disorder,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2NTADxDuhA [partial transcript bottom of this document]His majorbook is Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society.His latest book is The Body Keeps the Score:Brain, Mind and Body in Healing Trauma.He has published over 100 peer reviewed scientific articles on various aspects of trauma, including his current projects: 1) yoga for treating PTSD, funded by the National Institutes of Health; 2) the use of theater for violence prevention in the Boston public schools, funded by the CDC; 3) the mechanisms of EMDR; 4) sensory integration; and 5) the use of neurofeedback in PTSD. * Rauch SL, van der Kolk BA, Fisler RE, et al. A symptom provocation study of posttraumatic stress disorder using positron emission tomography and script-driven imagery. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry, 1996 53(5):380–387www.trauma-pages.com/a/vanderk2.php]** van der Kolk, Bessel,MD, “Developmental Trauma Disorder: Toward a rational diagnosis for children with complex trauma histories,” Psychiatric Annals, 35(5), 401 –408, (2005) www.traumacenter.org/products/pdf_files/preprint_dev_trauma_disorder.pdfMore research downloadable at http://www.riversidesupport.org/?s=blog&m=tag&x=Parentingwhich covers “The Complexity of Adoption in Trauma: Understanding the Impact of Trauma Through a Developmental Lens, “ Dr. van der Kolk’s speech to the 2012 Attach Conference on Adoption. Including:--Clinical Implications of Neuroscience Research in PTSD
--Understanding Interpersonal Trauma in Children: Why We Need a Developmentally Appropriate Diagnosis--Understanding Interpersonal Trauma in Children: What We've Learned Since the DSM-IV, and Why a Developmentally-Appropriate Trauma Diagnosis is Needed in Future DSMs “Developmental Trauma: What You Can’t See...” Overview of Dr. van der Kolk on Developmental Trauma Disorder by Kathy Brous: http://attachmentdisorderhealing.com/developmental-trauma/Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally-recognized authority on children in crisis. Dr. Perry is the founder and Senior Fellow of the ChildTrauma Academy (CTA) (www.ChildTrauma.org), a Houston-based organization dedicated to research and education on child maltreatment. He is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago and Senior Fellow, Berry Street Childhood Institute, Melbourne, Australia.Dr. Perry has been consulted on many high-profile incidents involving traumatized children, such asthe Columbine, Colorado school shootings, Oklahoma City bombing, and Branch Davidian siege. His latest research update and his key slides (hard to findexcept here) are at“Helping Children Recover from Trauma,” National Council LIVE, National Council on Behavioral Health, Sept. 5, 2013 at www.thenationalcouncil.org/events-and-training/webinars/webinar-archive/(scroll down to Sept. 2013.) This video and slides pdf download will only be available untilAugust, 2014.Two keyPerry slides areat: http://attachmentdisorderhealing.com/how-your-brain-works-101/CTA’s Library has key articles and videos on Interventions, Trauma, Brain Development/ Neuroscience, etc. at: https://childtrauma.org/cta-library/Perry’s new diagnostic model is The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT): http://childtrauma.org/nmt-model/references/Training in NMT Method and Somatosensory Regulation, Power of Rhythm: Training Certification Programs, DVD/streaming training, and online training is at:http://www.ctaproducts.orgDr. Perry’s YouTube channel with in-depth educational videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf4ZUgIXyxRcUNLuhimA5mA?feature=watchMost of Dr. Perry’s speeches are not published and he prefers to cite his books instead:-The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog: What Traumatized Children Teach Us, 2007-Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential--and Endangered, 2010-Brief: Reflections on Childhood, Trauma and Society, 2013Principles from Dr. Perry’s slides, National Council on Behavioral Health, Sept. 5, 2013 Pg. 3 slide: Sequential Neurodevelopment• The brain is undeveloped at birth –the brain stem is almost all we have when we’re born• The brain organizes from the “bottom” up -brainstem first, then up to cortex –and from the inside, out. So whatever harms the brain stem, multiples its effects through the rest of the brain.• Organization and functional capacity of neural systems is sequential• Experiences do not have equal “valence” throughout development. Earlier experiences have more weight..Pg. 8 slide: “Parts of the Brain are Dark” in traumatized kids: 3 Year old child: Left Normal, Right Extreme Neglect