Nature

Pre-trauma hair cortisol moderates adverse childhood experience and hypothalamic volume effects on stress symptoms after adult trauma

Adverse childhood experience (ACE) has been associated with impairments of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis including reduced hair cortisol concentrations (HCC) and hypothalamus volumes ...
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The unique contributions of adverse childhood experiences to increases in post-traumatic stress symptoms and problematic substance use after trauma exposure

This study investigated the complex relationships between adverse childhood experiences (ACE), post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), and substance use disorder (SUD) following a large-scale ...