• Question: Does bullying effect a students brain and how?

    Asked by AstonMartinDB9 to Iroise on 11 Nov 2016.
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      Iroise Dumontheil answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      This is not really my area but you can read about this here:
      http://www.brainfacts.org/in-society/in-society/articles/2015/bullying-and-the-brain/
      It seems quite a clear website.
      I’ve worked on a couple of studies looking at social exclusion, rather than bullying, and what the studies showed was that adolescents (it was done with female participants) showed a greater reduction in mood and a greater increase in anxiety after having been excluded (from a ball game played on a computer) and that they showed differences in brain activation compared to adults.

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