The timing of trauma determines adult behavioral outcomes like aggression or social anxiety by impacting specific ...

What counts as trauma: Adverse childhood experiences include abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction, all of which can have ...

Our childhood has a formative influence and long-lasting effects on later life. In particular, traumatic events experienced as a child can shape the processing of new information and impact not only ...

Childhood maltreatment is associated with accelerated biological aging and a tendency to avoid looking at people’s eyes. New research published in PLOS One indicates that these physical and behavioral ...

A research team from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology), in collaboration with the IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini in Genoa (Italy), has demonstrated that ...

It's yet more evidence that working on your mental health can impact future generations, too. "Generational trauma" has been a buzz phrase for a few years now, as more and more adults learn that the ...

Trauma is more common than we'd want to believe 1, affecting 50 to 60 percent of individuals over the course of a lifetime, according to the National Center for PTSD. Not everyone with trauma develops ...

Somhairlín Ó Cearbhaill, 33, was born into trauma, quite literally. The daughter of Irish immigrants who struggled with addiction, she came into the world with hearing, learning, and physical ...