What Neuroscience Reveals About Healing The Toll of Child Abuse

Send us Fan Mail '📖 Read the companion essay When a parent—the person who should be a child's ultimate buffer against stress—becomes the source of fear instead, the damage cascades through every system. But buried within the devastating research on adverse childhood experiences lies something unexpected: the brain can heal. Not metaphorically. Literally. In this episode, we examine: How early adversity literally changes gene expression through epigenetic programmingWhy traumatized children de...