A new study reveals a connection between early life trauma and adult brain aging. Adults reporting severe childhood stress ...

I am an immigrant. Married for over 10 years to an American husband, I am a therapist, teacher, trainer, and blogger. You might think that I’d feel confident in my place in America. Truthfully, I am ...

Sora Shin, a Virginia Tech assistant professor with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, will study how brain circuits contribute to aggressive behavior with a $3.2 million grant from the ...

In 1966, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu introduced extreme policies to increase the country’s birth rate. This led to the widespread abandonment of children, who ended up in orphanages in ...

Early life stress (ELS) can have long-lasting effects on mental health, increasing the risk of developing anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Importantly, women are ...

Virginia Tech scientist Sora Shin (right) of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and postdoctoral associate Jane Jung found that early-life trauma changes a brain circuit linked to both ...

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Traumatic experiences during infancy and childhood can leave a lasting imprint on an individual’s health. New research indicates that these adverse events may fundamentally reorganize how the brain ...

Examining brain plasticity and its implications for development, aging, and brain injury recovery.

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That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early ...