Neurobiology of Psychological Trauma Etiology and Its Reversal with Etiotropic Trauma Management (ETM)TM

This book locates the substrate of psychological trauma etiology to be in the alterations to long term potentiation and depression of the synapses maintaining memory underlying personal identity rendered extinct by the traumatic event. The book was first written as a chapter in the Etiotropic Trauma Management (ETM)TM textbook published in 1992. At the time all other substrate characterizations of trauma were nosotropically (symptom) focused. I'm publishing that chapter today as a book because nothing has changed since that time, except that the literature now unequivocally locates the substrate of memory and learning in synaptic long term potentiation and depression, making that part of the theory in less need of proof. The noradrenergic and opioid systems responses (as symptoms) provide for facilitation of the morphological changes undergone to create new synapses as replacement storage for replacement psychological reality following the event (traumatic).