National Institutes of Health awarded a University of Iowa assistant professor and his team a $3.7 million grant to conduct a five-year study investigating how adverse childhood events may influence ...

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.

Many psychoanalysts believe that there exists a series of "calamities of childhood" that must be overcome, or adults must ...

Childhood trauma can cause depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), eating disorders, and more. Trauma’s effects can continue influencing a person’s feelings, health, and behaviors as an ...

When a parent suffered trauma as a child, their kids are affected. Trauma in childhood echoes through generations, according to new research that could have implications for thousands of migrant ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 64% of adults in the U.S. have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience before the age of 18, while “nearly 1 in 6” adults reported at ...

This post was updated Oct. 30 at 11:34 p.m. California’s surgeon general said at an Oct. 20 UCLA event that addressing ...

As children, we often don’t slow down enough to rationalize how the behaviors we adapt to early in life evolve in adulthood. The expectation is that life matures the innocent mind, and mistakes are ...

A new developmental theory is reshaping how experts understand the reliability of children's and adolescents' memories of traumatic events and adverse experiences. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Early childhood trauma alters brain function in adults, according to new research. In a meta-analysis of 83 functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies that included more than 5000 patients, ...