Scientists have known for some time that people who experience early childhood adversity are more prone to developing health and behavioral issues in adulthood, but the brain mechanisms behind these ...

When I was twelve, I was coming home from swimming at my neighbor’s dock when I saw an ambulance’s flashing lights in our driveway. I still remember the asphalt burning my feet as I stood, paralyzed, ...

Researchers at Rutgers University have found that adverse childhood experiences can make people more sensitive to potential threats from others, which in turn increases their risk of engaging in ...

Prior research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has shown them to be strong predictors of health behaviors, chronic conditions, and other adverse outcomes. However, less is known about the ...

Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) during early childhood, middle childhood, and/or adolescence are all risk factors for self-harm and depression. Early and secondary interventions may ...

On Aug. 29, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he had commuted the sentences of five people serving life without parole for murder. The oldest of them was 28 at the time of his crime, and ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers investigated the relationship between maternal traumatic childhood experiences and epigenetic age acceleration throughout pregnancy and ...

I, Setareh Harsamizadeh Tehrani, remember the sound of my parents fighting when I was a child, glasses shattering. I was experiencing something known as an adverse childhood experience, but I didn’t ...

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of data from multiple sources in the Census Bureau Data Linkage Infrastructure; authors’ analysis of events during 2017–21 among 23,000–930,000 people (ages 18–22) born during ...

New research shows that overall, the prevalence of adverse and positive childhood experiences reported by parents of teenagers hasn't changed substantially in the United States in recent years.