Children who experience traumatic events may show subtle but measurable differences in how their brains process attention and ...

A new study reveals that aggression and self-harm share a biological foundation in the brain’s response to early-life trauma.

Our brain is always there. From birth, and even prenatally, it is exposed to the environment. How does the brain react to that? The brain shows spontaneous or intrinsic activity that seems to remain ...

Everyone has different trauma responses. While some people would grow up more timid and less responsive, because of their childhood experiences, others can show more aggressive tendencies. But why ...

Researchers identified SGK1 as a key chemical connecting childhood trauma to depression and suicidal behavior. High SGK1 ...

A recent study published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging finds that childhood trauma can lead to disruptions in two main regions of the brain, the default mode ...

Scientists have identified a brain chemical that could explain why people who face trauma or neglect in childhood are more vulnerable to depression and suicidal thoughts later in life.

A single neural thread in the brain may explain why some people who are hurt lash out while others turn the pain inward. A ...

When a baby enters the world, their brain contains billions of neurons awaiting connection. The first 1,000 days of life, from conception to age two, represent a critical period where over 85% of ...

There’s a reason April Beaton has a 6-foot white beanbag in the living room and not a coffee table; a reason her 5-year-old son’s bedroom is kept bare. There’s a reason she keeps a stack of printouts ...

When babies are born, their brains contain billions of neurons. But how those neurons interact — and what they can do as babies grow through childhood into adulthood — is largely shaped by their ...

Neuroscientists from Columbia University and McGill University have identified a brain chemical that appears to drive ...