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

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