![Wartime Trauma Impaired Empathy in Mothers of Small Children, Impacting Parenting Wartime Trauma Impaired Empathy in Mothers of Small Children, Impacting Parenting](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/momholdshersoninherarmscomfortshim-1440_1.png?itok=1k_SNXeh)
The U.N. estimates that over half a billion children around the world are growing up under traumatic circumstances caused by ethnic, religious, national, or tribal conflicts.
Over the last two…
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![Severe Stress Before Age 6 Resulted in Smaller Brain Memory Structures](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/littleboystandingbehindthewindowinsadmood-1440_0.jpg?itok=w4o8PMKH)
A team of researchers studying the impact of stress upon children has published new evidence suggesting that there is a “sensitive period” lasting through age 5 in which severe stress appears to have…
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![New Clues for Medication to Prevent Disorders Caused by Early-Life Stress](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/artificialneuronconceptintelligence-1440.jpg?itok=5MfVQlBN)
For several decades researchers have known that acute stress experienced early in life can harm the brain and can lead immediately or in later years to a variety of disorders, from depression and…
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![Adult-Born Neurons Protect Against Chronic Stress](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/neuronbraincellneuralnetwork3dillustrationhumannervoussystem.jpg-1440_0.jpg?itok=Ly2g91Xc)
The birth of new neurons in the adult brain is important for resilience to chronic stress, researchers have found. The new discovery, made in mice, suggests that adult-born cells in the hippocampus—a…
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![Remodeling neural circuits from stress](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/neuronbraincellneuralnetwork3dillustrationhumannervoussystem.jpg-1440.jpg?itok=aRdBN_hS)
Chronic stress alters neural circuits in the brain, increasing the risk of depression and anxiety. According to animal studies reported in the January issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry, some…
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