The effects of childhood maltreatment on brain structure, function and connectivity

MH Teicher, JA Samson, CM Anderson… - Nature reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Maltreatment-related childhood adversity is the leading preventable risk factor for mental
illness and substance abuse. Although the association between maltreatment and …

Annual research review: enduring neurobiological effects of childhood abuse and neglect

MH Teicher, JA Samson - Journal of child psychology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background Childhood maltreatment is the most important preventable cause of
psychopathology accounting for about 45% of the population attributable risk for childhood …

Recognizing the importance of childhood maltreatment as a critical factor in psychiatric diagnoses, treatment, research, prevention, and education

MH Teicher, JB Gordon, CB Nemeroff - Molecular psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Childhood maltreatment is the most important preventable risk factor for psychiatric
disorders. Maltreated individuals typically develop psychiatric disorders at an earlier age …

Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition

SJ Lupien, BS McEwen, MR Gunnar… - Nature reviews …, 2009 - nature.com
Chronic exposure to stress hormones, whether it occurs during the prenatal period, infancy,
childhood, adolescence, adulthood or aging, has an impact on brain structures involved in …

[CITATION][C] Why people die by suicide

TE Joiner - Harvard University Pres, 2005 - books.google.com
In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to
answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly …

The enduring effects of abuse and related adverse experiences in childhood: A convergence of evidence from neurobiology and epidemiology

RF Anda, VJ Felitti, JD Bremner, JD Walker… - European archives of …, 2006 - Springer
Background Childhood maltreatment has been linked to a variety of changes in brain
structure and function and stress–responsive neurobiological systems. Epidemiological …

The devastating clinical consequences of child abuse and neglect: increased disease vulnerability and poor treatment response in mood disorders

ETC Lippard, CB Nemeroff - American journal of psychiatry, 2023 - psychiatryonline.org
A large body of evidence has demonstrated that exposure to childhood maltreatment at any
stage of development can have long-lasting consequences. It is associated with a marked …

Adverse childhood experiences, allostasis, allostatic load, and age-related disease

A Danese, BS McEwen - Physiology & behavior, 2012 - Elsevier
How do adverse childhood experiences get 'under the skin'and influence health outcomes
through the life-course? Research reviewed here suggests that adverse childhood …

Epigenetic regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor in human brain associates with childhood abuse

PO McGowan, A Sasaki, AC D'alessio, S Dymov… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Maternal care influences hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) function in the rat through
epigenetic programming of glucocorticoid receptor expression. In humans, childhood abuse …

Adverse childhood experiences and the consequences on neurobiological, psychosocial, and somatic conditions across the lifespan

JI Herzog, C Schmahl - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) such as sexual and physical abuse or
neglect are frequent in childhood and constitute a massive stressor with long-lasting …