The study involved over 7,000 participants and used brain SPECT imaging and clinical evaluations to map how childhood trauma affects brain activity. Results show that higher ACE scores are closely ...

Sharing in relationships for these reasons can create vulnerability and suboptimal functioning.

Education and literacy: Studies have shown that traumatic experiences in childhood can diminish concentration, memory, and ...

If you experience trauma during childhood, there's a greater chance you'll use substances such as alcohol, tobacco and other ...

Childhood trauma is such a ... discrete traumas but a full-on traumatic upbringing — "something very important happens in the brain, where it stops planning for the future." ...

If as infants we are sung to and receive physical affection, our brain develops these connections. This is the world we expect and feel prepared for. A child who has experienced trauma will have ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) was used to re-examine hundreds of brain scans ... to reverse those effects. One in three children and young people will experience a potentially traumatic event ...

Later exposures affect specific brain areas. Researchers used a new statistical method to identify whether there are "sensitive periods" in childhood when the brain is particularly susceptible to ...