Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are characterized as stressful or traumatic experiences encountered before 18 years of age. ACEs can lead to toxic stress, which causes negative physical and ...

What Are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)? Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can potentially cause trauma. ACEs aren’t specific. They can include any distressful event between birth and age 17.

The first-of-its-kind study, published in The Lancet Public Health and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research Policy Research Programme, found that mothers whose firstborns had ...

Adverse childhood experiences, such as physical or sexual abuse, parental divorce, socioeconomic hardship, neglect or bullying, may increase the risk of obesity in children, according to new ...

In 1995, a research team in Southern California launched an inquiry into how the challenges people experience during their younger years impact them as adults. They asked approximately 17,000 adults ...

Some of my recent articles have explained that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) primarily imprint shame in the non-verbal, visual right brain (with its deep connections to the emotional and ...

A recent doctoral dissertation reveals that adverse childhood experiences, such as abuse and neglect, predisposes adolescents to suicidality. Girls had a higher risk of a suicidal event occurring ...

When I was twelve, I was coming home from swimming at my neighbor’s dock when I saw an ambulance’s flashing lights in our driveway. I still remember the asphalt burning my feet as I stood, paralyzed, ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers investigated the relationship between maternal traumatic childhood experiences and epigenetic age acceleration throughout pregnancy and ...

Racism can have deleterious effects and should be treated by pediatricians as an adverse childhood experience with significant physical and behavioral ramifications, according to Adiaha ...

I, Setareh Harsamizadeh Tehrani, remember the sound of my parents fighting when I was a child, glasses shattering. I was experiencing something known as an adverse childhood experience, but I didn’t ...