Broken Mind, Broken Matter

Chris Engel 10/29/137:40 PM

A landmark study on adverse childhood experiences should revolutionize medicine. But it hasn't yet.

The cost of trauma
While the psychological and psychosocial repercussions of childhood trauma are widely accepted, the very real physical complications that can follow are just beginning to be grasped. Cross says children who grow up under adverse circumstances are, simply put, wired differently. “They have a different brain from children who grow up in a protective, nurturing environment,” he says. “It’s a brain that makes it hard for you to function well given the normal stresses and strains of life.”...

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