Photo credit: Tambako The Jaguar, Flickr Do animals experience the equivalent of childhood adverse experiences, and do they develop mental illness as a result? The story of Brian the Bonobo, along with others featured in a new book, Animal...
Photo credit: Chris Stotts, Flickr Children showing signs of social withdrawal are more susceptible to parental influences than others. These children were also more prone to distress caused by the impacts of guilt-inducing parenting. The...
Photo credit: Tatiana Vdb, Flickr Pregnant women who had symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder were four times more likely to deliver preterm than women without symptoms, researchers found....
The fraternity quad at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., in May. Credit: Armando L. Sanchez for The New York Times . As policymakers and advocates contemplate how to prevent campus sexual assault, attention is turning to the role...
Inside the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, Calif. Credit: Rich Pedroncelli / AP Photo SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Democrats in the Legislature want the state corrections budget to spend tens of millions of dollars more on mental health...
Photo Credit: Javi.Velazquez, Flickr When trying to tease out the painful effects of the Great Recession, economists often point to the unemployment rate. The global economic crisis, which first took hold in 2007, left thousands jobless and...
At Bethany Christian Services in Grand Rapids, MI, a teen pregnancy prevention session can feel like a United Nations meeting. Funded by a Competitive Abstinence Education Grant from the Family and Youth Services Bureau’s Adolescent Pregnancy...
Brains of people mistreated in childhood have less brain volume in areas of the hippocampal complex shaded in yellow. People abused as children show reduced brain volume in regions governing emotion, learning, and memory, deficits that make them...
Unsurprisingly to those familiar with ACEs, relationships with parents can affect their children's substance use. This study suggests that both relationships that are overly controlling AND relationships lacking control and affection put children at...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons A new medication may help those living with post-traumatic stress. There are currently only two FDA-approved medications for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the United States. Both of these...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons A review of the literature on bullying suggests that teens on both sides of this abusive relationship may be more likely to bring guns to school than other teens. MONDAY, June 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Teenage...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons Massachusetts is close to achieving universal healthcare. This may have major implications for the accessibility of healthcare for the mental and physical consequences of ACEs. When Massachusetts passed its...
A new graphic novel seeks to help patients who are not yet comfortable having a conversation about sexual abuse. It must have been a difficult pitch: a free graphic novel about sexual assault survivors . However The Courage to Be Me...
The Wisconsin Children’s Trust Fund and the Child Abuse Prevention Fund of Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin released the “ Wisconsin ACE Brief: 2011 and 2012 Data ”, which describes the prevalence of adverse childhood...
This question and answer session with Dr. Jeffrey Swanson helps clarify what we do and don't know about the connection between mental health and violence and makes suggestions for reducing violence (both at home and in the larger society)....