How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime

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 TED Talk: Nadine Burke Harris

An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up.

Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the 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.


Editor's Note: This came to my attention in The League of Extraordinary Love Agents on Facebook Stan 23:42, 15 December 2019 (EST)