The term "adverse childhood experience" refers to a range of negative situations a child may face or witness while growing up. These experiences include emotional, physical, or sexual abuse ...

A new study reveals that adverse childhood experiences make adults more emotionally reactive—not only to negative events, but ...

When children are exposed to very challenging experiences, their health suffers. In our recent study, “Adverse Childhood Experiences and Household Food Insecurity: Findings from the 2016 National ...

Survivors and experts on childhood trauma gathered Monday for a panel aimed at providing tools, education and support to help ...

Host Flora Lichtman talks with Preeti Simran Sethi, science writer and Rosalyn Carter Mental Health Journalism fellow, about her reporting for Science Friday about adverse childhood experiences.

Bad experiences in childhood can have long-lasting effects, making people more sensitive to their daily ups and downs as adults. A new study from Heriot-Watt's School of Social Sciences shows that ...

In an extensive and up-to-the-minute review of research in this domain, scholars illuminate the profound impacts of these adverse childhood experiences on brain development and introduce new paths ...

Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Public Health Issue - Building Strong Brains Tennessee is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV ...

It also revealed that these adverse childhood experiences — which ranged from physical, emotional and sexual abuse to neglect, domestic violence and loss of a parent — were linked to five of ...

In an extensive and up-to-the-minute review of research in this domain, scholars from the University of California, Irvine illuminate the profound impacts of these adverse childhood experiences on ...