Experiences—good and bad—shape a person. While some incidents are simply embarrassing moments or blunders that may resurface years later, others leave far more lasting emotional scars. For instance, ...

A research team from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology), in collaboration with the IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini in Genoa (Italy), has demonstrated that ...

Severe stress during childhood can leave a "scar" inside brain cells, reveals new research. The damage makes a person more vulnerable to anxiety, depression and other mood disorders when faced with ...

I am an immigrant. Married for over 10 years to an American husband, I am a therapist, teacher, trainer, and blogger. You might think that I’d feel confident in my place in America. Truthfully, I am ...

Young rats given a ketogenic diet were largely protected from the mental and behavioral issues caused by prenatal stress. The high-fat, low-carb diet appeared to safeguard brain development and ...

A research team from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology), in collaboration with the IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini in Genoa (Italy), has demonstrated that ...

Exposure to stress during critical developmental windows significantly increases the risk of developing mood and anxiety disorders in adulthood. While women and sexual- and gender-minority groups ...

Many childhood experiences affect us long into adult life, and that has a significant effect on health – it's estimated that more than half of us have some kind of adverse event happen to us as kids, ...

Maltreatment during childhood could show up as a ‘scar’ on the brain in the form of differing cortical thickness, surface ...