Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime ( Video )

 

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that theacelogo (1) repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.

Written By Jane Ellen Stevens

Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime was originally published @ ACEs Too High » Jane Ellen Stevens and has been syndicated with permission.

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