The stress, fear, and terror accompanying abuse may produce permanent changes in the victim's brain due to __________ of the __________.

A. understimulation; hypothalamus
B. overstimulation; limbic system
C. overstimulation; thalamus
D. understimulation; amygdala


Answer: B

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