Childhood adversity, encompassing experiences such as emotional and physical abuse, neglect, and witnessing intimate partner violence, has long been recognized as a major public health problem, ...

Faced with a traumatic situation, a child's biology responds in the only way it can, shunting all resources toward survival. Unfortunately, that might also mean taking resources away from the ...

Adversity early in life can have permanent health consequences for people - even if their circumstances improve dramatically later on. Scientists use a cumulative adversity index, or CAI, which ...

Traumatic experiences during infancy and childhood can leave a lasting imprint on an individual’s health. New research indicates that these adverse events may fundamentally reorganize how the brain ...

Among people in treatment for alcohol dependence, the severity of withdrawal symptoms during early alcohol abstinence may be affected by the life adversity they have experienced, a small study ...

A large new study published in Biological Psychiatry reveals that childhood abuse and neglect are associated with distinct differences in adult brain structure. These physical variations are most ...

How resilient are you? We’ve been thinking about all that has gone on in the world in the last few years and is still going on today. That got us reflecting about our parents and ancestors. They ...

It’s well-established in psychology that if you experience trauma as a child, chances are it’ll impact your physical and mental health as an adult, and could even affect your economic status. In ...

Early experiences in an animal's life can have a significant impact on its capacity to thrive, even years or decades later, and DNA methylation may help record their effects. In a study of 256 wild ...

Adverse environmental conditions, especially early in life, can have long-term effects on an animal’s health and survival. For example, in rhesus monkeys, infants who are separated from their mothers ...