Following a traumatic event, some individuals develop mental health conditions like posttraumatic stress disorder or clinical ...

Child maltreatment, which includes abuse and neglect, is one of the most serious public health concerns worldwide. These adversities leave a lasting impact on the emotional well-being, memory, and ...

What Are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)? Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can potentially cause trauma. ACEs aren’t specific. They can include any distressful event between birth and age 17.

New research indicates that the long-term neurological impact of childhood trauma is not permanently etched onto the brain. An analysis of brain communication patterns in a group of individuals who ...

Addressing childhood trauma is one of the most effective crime-prevention strategies available.

Dr. Poletti's groundbreaking research has transformed understanding of how early life experiences become biologically embedded, creating lasting changes in brain structure and immune function. As the ...

Research in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging challenges the traditional deficit-focused views of adversity and offers a more dynamic and hopeful pathway for ...

TAMPA, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) --- In the wake of Texas’ deadly floods, families across the country are grieving and worried about how trauma may impact the children who survived and the ones watching ...

Folklore and urban legends are replete with pithy sayings and grim anecdotes expressing the belief that trauma and adversity prematurely age a person. Now we are acquiring new tools to test these ...

“Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.” — Kurt Cobain There is something undeniably magnetic about watching an artist fall apart and then rise, singing about the wreckage, painting it in ...