A study of college students indicates that treating oneself with kindness may buffer the impact of adverse childhood ...

Groundbreaking research conducted in the 1990s found that the greater number of negative childhood experiences a person had, the more likely they were to experience poor health outcomes later in life ...

—According to the results of this study, identifying adverse childhood experiences can go a long way toward reducing stress in adulthood, as well as lowering the odds of developing major depressive ...

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has increasingly become a public health concern among teenagers, not only because of its harmful consequences but also due to its potential role as a risk factor for ...

We all know that traumatic experiences in childhood leave deep invisible scars. However, researchers examining longitudinal ...

On Aug. 29, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he had commuted the sentences of five people serving life without parole for murder. The oldest of them was 28 at the time of his crime, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. An important realm that doesn’t get as much attention as is ...

I, Setareh Harsamizadeh Tehrani, remember the sound of my parents fighting when I was a child, glasses shattering. I was experiencing something known as an adverse childhood experience, but I didn’t ...

Semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, has been shown to reduce the risk of adverse cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes. Whether semaglutide can reduce cardiovascular ...