Decades after a landmark study showed the lasting health effects of such trauma, researchers are finding ways to guard against enduring harm.

Most people assume their memories of growing up are fixed, much like a file stored in a cabinet, but new research suggests the way we remember our childhoods might actually shift depending on how we ...

CM was assessed using the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) questionnaire and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ). Empathy was measured using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), ...

University of Leeds psychologists report that stress appraisal and perceived stress act as key conduits linking childhood trauma to adult depression, anxiety, defeat, and entrapment. Subscribe to our ...

Events during childhood may continue to affect our emotions as adults. There has been plenty of evidence, for example, that people who experienced childhood trauma are more vulnerable to depression.

Introduction A significant proportion of adults in England and Wales report experiencing childhood trauma, which is often associated with poor health and negative social outcomes including a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . 52% reported trauma, most often emotional and physical abuse. Mean scores for paranoia included 54.96 with ...

Our brain is always there. From birth, and even prenatally, it is exposed to the environment. How does the brain react to that? The brain shows spontaneous or intrinsic activity that seems to remain ...

Are superheroes and supervillains the product of their childhood experiences? Not if they belong to the Marvel Cinematic Extended Universe or DC Universe, according to a new paper published in the ...

In a study of characters from the Marvel and DC cinematic universes, the amount of potentially traumatic events a character experienced in childhood—as measured by a real-life questionnaire—had no ...