A new study links childhood trauma type and timing to altered fear brain circuits and IL-8/IL-17 inflammation.

Child maltreatment, which includes abuse and neglect, is one of the most serious public health concerns worldwide. These adversities leave a lasting impact on the emotional well-being, memory, and ...

A recent study published in Biological Psychiatry provides evidence that experiencing abuse or neglect during childhood is linked to specific physical changes in brain structure that vary based on a ...

Sora Shin, a Virginia Tech assistant professor with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, will study how brain circuits contribute to aggressive behavior with a $3.2 million grant from the ...

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 ...

What began as a child's encounter with trauma has grown into a research programme committed to understanding recovery. When she was in Grade 5, Dr Gillian Mahumane's father suffered a traumatic brain ...

Schizophrenia is often known as a heritable disorder, but what some fail to realize is that the environment can play a major ...

In the class of things that happen so often or predictably as to become truisms are the high-risk activities that teenagers frequently engage in, like driving too fast, using alcohol or drugs, ...

Researchers identify molecular markers in children and adolescents, revealing how child maltreatment stress alters DNA, brain development, and mental health Child maltreatment, which includes abuse ...