How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | Nadine Burke Harris
TED Health
English - February 17, 2015 15:50 - 110 MB Video - ★★★★ - 957 ratingsHealth & Fitness Science politics interview entrepreneurship business health leadership entrepreneur news fitness finance Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.