Children who experience chronic stressors are vulnerable to emotional and physical health
problems across the lifespan. This phenomenon raises questions for scientists and …

Background Childhood maltreatment is a potent predictor of poor mental health across the
life span. We argue that there is a need to improve the understanding of the mechanisms …

Discovering the processes through which early adverse experiences affect children's
nervous-system development, health, and behavior is critically important for developing …

Depression is a significant public health problem, but its etiology and pathophysiology
remain poorly understood. Such incomplete understanding likely arises from the fact that …

Rationale The investigation of putative effects of early life stress (ELS) in humans on later
behavior and neurobiology is a fast developing field. While epidemiological and …

Childhood trauma is a key risk factor for psychopathology. However, little is known about
how exposure to childhood trauma is translated into biological risk for psychopathology …

This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

Early life stress (ELS), in the form of childhood maltreatment, abuse, or neglect, increases
the risk for psychiatric sequelae later in life. The neurobiology of response to early stress …

Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and
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Individuals who have experienced chronic and high levels of stress during their childhoods
are at increased risk for a wide range of behavioral problems, yet the neurobiological …