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

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Parent Psychotherapy doesn’t just heal emotional wounds — it repairs a biological process that could benefit kids for life.

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People who went through hell growing up and still turned out okay learned a handful of survival skills that kept them ...

In 1966, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu introduced extreme policies to increase the country’s birth rate. This led to the widespread abandonment of children, who ended up in orphanages in ...

Childhood trauma is assumed to be something that permanently shapes us, but what if adult relationships play a role in ...

In the 1980s, a study was conducted to investigate obesity treatment. A researcher tried fasting under medical supervision, and not surprisingly, many adults lost vast amounts of weight quickly. But ...

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers evaluated the associations of childhood trauma with emotion recognition accuracy (ERA). Study: The association between childhood trauma ...

Are you able to recognize signs of family abuse or dysfunction and how these childhood experiences may be affecting your ...