The ups and downs of a roller coaster are used as a metaphor for a variety of experiences, but none are as apropos as the world of business. Perhaps that's part of what makes business, just like ...

Research has shown that young people who face adversity such as traumatic or stressful events during brain development are 40% more likely to develop anxiety disorders by adulthood. But most people ...

Women who have experienced high levels of trauma in childhood, such as abuse by a parent, are biologically older at the epigenetic cellular level in adulthood than women of the same age who have not ...

I recently came across an article written by Pendell (2021) titled “Younger Workers Have Had It Worse.” Although I have serious criticisms of many of the underlying claims [1], the title and the ...

Mistreating a dog may come back to bite you. Scientists have long known that childhood abuse, neglect, and trauma can have lifelong consequences in humans. Now, a study by Harvard scientists links ...

Research has shown that young people who face adversity such as traumatic or stressful events during brain development are 40% more likely to develop anxiety disorders by adulthood. But most people ...

We need to be prepared to dig in deep and find our wings so that we can soar once more. I’m writing this as I sit here drinking a glass of Irish whiskey, recovering from a hip replacement surgery at ...

How does early adversity affect the brain? Childhood screening may provide important answers. Learn more in “Broken Places,” which explores how traumatic stress in children can impact the rest of ...

Last week, the College Board announced a long-overdue innovation: It will try to put students’ SAT scores in context by providing colleges with an adversity measure that summarizes—on a scale of one ...