"Moving from one place to another can result in a breakdown of connections to peer friends, and distress and worries about the new environment," she said.
A recent study conducted by the University of Iowa found that high levels of the stress hormone in older rats (comparable to adults around age 65) led to the breakdown of connections in the brain which help us process and store memories.
Studies suggest that this stems from maternal detachment — the breakdown of emotional connection between traumatized mothers and their children.
For example, Schindler et al. (1988) proposed generalized magnetic reconnection (GMR) to represent processes by which a breakdown of magnetic connection occurs due to a localized non-idealness in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) formalism.
Those who have never known poverty or homelessness, or dire medical situations, or breakdown of social connections should be more sympathetic.
The breakdown of social connections shows up not just in civic organization, but also in everyday sociability, with pernicious effects on education, health, and happiness as well as democracy.
Added to the immediate concerns of hazardous travel conditions, flight cancellations and possible power outages, the Union of Concerned Scientists offered a breakdown of the connections between winter storm 'Nemo' and climate change.
It's an evolving picture, of course, and at times, the breakdown of a key connection (let's say the marketing and sales director fall out), will have a host of ripple-effect consequences, strengthening allegiances lower down, creating back-channels for communication and potentially leading to fissures elsewhere in the business.
In addition to physical linkers, the complex contains the signalling molecules which control focal adhesion turnover and breakdown of the cell matrix connection.
Therefore, we predict that breakdown of these frontal connections following traumatic brain injury will similarly correlate with executive impairment.
