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 …

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 …

The effects of chronic stress on the human brain: From neurotoxicity, to vulnerability, to opportunity

SJ Lupien, RP Juster, C Raymond, MF Marin - Frontiers in …, 2018 - Elsevier
For the last five decades, science has managed to delineate the mechanisms by which
stress hormones can impact on the human brain. Receptors for glucocorticoids are found in …

Post-traumatic stress disorder

R Yehuda, CW Hoge, AC McFarlane… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2015 - nature.com
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs in 5–10% of the population and is twice as
common in women as in men. Although trauma exposure is the precipitating event for PTSD …

Childhood maltreatment and psychopathology: A case for ecophenotypic variants as clinically and neurobiologically distinct subtypes

MH Teicher, JA Samson - American journal of psychiatry, 2013 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective Childhood maltreatment increases risk for psychopathology. For some highly
prevalent disorders (major depression, substance abuse, anxiety disorders, and …

The effects of poverty on childhood brain development: the mediating effect of caregiving and stressful life events

J Luby, A Belden, K Botteron, N Marrus… - JAMA …, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The study provides novel data to inform the mechanisms by which poverty
negatively impacts childhood brain development. Objective To investigate whether the …

A quantitative meta-analysis of neurocognitive functioning in posttraumatic stress disorder.

JC Scott, GE Matt, KM Wrocklage, C Crnich… - Psychological …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with regional alterations in brain
structure and function that are hypothesized to contribute to symptoms and cognitive deficits …

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 …

Sex differences in anxiety disorders: interactions between fear, stress, and gonadal hormones

LY Maeng, MR Milad - Hormones and behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
This article is part of a Special Issue “SBN 2014”. Women are more vulnerable to stress-and
fear-based disorders, such as anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. Despite the …

Post-traumatic stress disorder: the neurobiological impact of psychological trauma

JE Sherin, CB Nemeroff - Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The classic fight-or-flight response to perceived threat is a reflexive nervous phenomenon
thai has obvious survival advantages in evolutionary terms. However, the systems that …