The Defense Department is seeking a variety of information that can help in formulating standards for assessing mild ...

Following a brain injury, specific progenitor cells produce a neuropeptide to prevent their neighboring cells from maturing ...

Childhood maltreatment can affect mental health years later. But the brain changes throughout life, so it is hard to know whether early adversity is linked with one clear pattern in brain structure.

"We know that childhood maltreatment is a major risk factor for many stress-related disorders, including major depressive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder, and we wanted to know if there was ...

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

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 ...

Childhood abuse leaves a scar on the brain, a new neuroimaging study led by UCLA psychologists has shown. The researchers ...