Corporality and Trauma

Sensorimotor Interaction Against Trauma

“…PTSD prevalence varies in geographical areas, cultural factors, and different degrees of exposure to traumatic events (Kessler et al, 2017 ), and occurs twice as often in women than men (Christiansen and Hansen, 2015 ; Kessler et al, 2017 ). In this regard, trauma is a relevant example of the need to consider how gender and sex interact with socio-cultural aspects that drive a different manifestation of suffering and access to health care and treatment between men and women (Navarro et al, 2015 ). Moreover, biological factors underlying sex, such as neuroendocrinology, genomics, and developmental differentiation programmed by gonadal steroids, mediate the individual's impact and outcome of the traumatic event (Sherin and Nemeroff, 2011 ).…”