How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a LifetimePublication Date: 2014
Runtime: 15:50. 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, which unfolds across a lifetime to the point where those who have experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer.