In this review, a developmental traumatology model of child maltreatment and the risk for the
intergenerational cycle of abuse and neglect using a mental health or posttraumatic stress …

Both stress-system activation and melancholic depression are characterized by fear,
constricted affect, stereotyped thinking, and similar changes in autonomic and neuroendocrine …

Child maltreatment appears to be the single most preventable cause of mental illness and
behavioral dysfunction in the United States. Few published studies examine the …

The corpus callosum (CC) is the major commissure connecting the cerebral hemispheres
and there is evidence of its continuing development into young adulthood [Ann. Neurol. 34 (…

Background: Previous investigations suggest that maltreated children with a diagnosis of
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) evidence alterations of biological stress systems. …

There is growing evidence that child maltreatment and posttraumatic stress disorder result in
numerous neurobiological alterations in children and adolescents, including abnormalities …

Background: This investigation examined the relationship between trauma, psychiatric
symptoms and urinary free cortisol (UFC) and catecholamine (epinephrine [EPI], norepinephrine […

Trauma in childhood has serious consequences for its victims and for society. For the
purposes of this critical review, childhood trauma is defined according to the

Brain development during childhood and adolescence is characterized by both progressive
myelination and regressive pruning processes. However, sex differences in brain maturation …

BACKGROUND: Previous investigations suggest that maltreated children evidence alterations
of chemical mediators of stress and adverse brain development. Previous anatomical …