Two recent studies published in Gastroenterology provide evidence that events in early life shape the long-term health of the ...

Psychology Assistant Professor Sarah Merrill studies the chemical tags that trauma and other adverse experiences can leave on children’s genes – and whether interventions can buffer the effects of ...

Most research on the health effects of stress focuses on adults, but a new review looks at how stress uniquely affects children. In the most comprehensive review of its kind to date, UC San Francisco ...

W hen the word trauma is mentioned it is usually referred to as a terrible event from the past. But in Palestine trauma is ...

The wildfires that recently ravaged communities in and around Los Angeles were a significantly traumatic experience whose reverberations will continue to be felt well into the future. Children respond ...

Establishing good financial habits for your kids isn't just about saving and spending—it's also about healing your financial ...

Chronic pain affects 150 million people across Europe, according to the European Pain Federation. That is approximately the population of France and Germany combined. This burden drives countless ...

Amy Knight, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurology, discusses why and how chronic stress can affect one’s brain and overall health. What is ...

During my dissertation research on combat veterans with post-traumatic stress (PTS), I realized that when discussing traumatic events that lead to PTS, the victim often has a hard time describing the ...