Recognizing the importance of childhood maltreatment as a critical factor in psychiatric diagnoses, treatment, research, prevention, and education

Children Exposed to Maltreatment: Assessment and the Role of Psychotropic Medication

(2020) Brooks Keeshin et al.   PEDIATRICS

Clinical Profiles and Health Services Patterns of Medicaid-Enrolled Youths Who Died by Suicide

(2020) Cynthia A. Fontanella et al.   JAMA Pediatrics

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Developing Adolescent Brain

(2020) Josh M. Cisler et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Interactive impact of childhood maltreatment, depression, and age on cortical brain structure: mega-analytic findings from a large multi-site cohort

(2019) Leonardo Tozzi et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE

Childhood maltreatment and treatment outcome in psychotic disorders: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

(2019) Sarah Thomas et al.   ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA

Association of Prepubertal and Postpubertal Exposure to Childhood Maltreatment With Adult Amygdala Function

(2019) Jianjun Zhu et al.   JAMA Psychiatry

The Devastating Clinical Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect: Increased Disease Vulnerability and Poor Treatment Response in Mood Disorders

(2019) Elizabeth T.C. Lippard et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Vital Signs: Estimated Proportion of Adult Health Problems Attributable to Adverse Childhood Experiences and Implications for Prevention — 25 States, 2015–2017

(2019) Melissa T. Merrick et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

History of childhood abuse is associated with less positive treatment outcomes in socially stable women with alcohol use disorder

(2019) Fides Schückher et al.   BMC Womens Health

Impact of Childhood Maltreatment in Borderline Personality Disorder on Treatment Response to Intensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy

(2019) Sebastian Euler et al.   JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS

Childhood victimization and inflammation in young adulthood: A genetically sensitive cohort study

(2018) Jessie R. Baldwin et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY

The effects of early life stress on reward processing

(2018) Andrew M. Novick et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH

Differential effects of childhood neglect and abuse during sensitive exposure periods on male and female hippocampus

(2018) Martin H. Teicher et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Susceptibility or Resilience to Maltreatment Can Be Explained by Specific Differences in Brain Network Architecture

(2018) Kyoko Ohashi et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Adverse childhood experiences influence the detrimental effect of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia on cortico-limbic grey matter volumes

(2016) Sara Poletti et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Annual Research Review: Enduring neurobiological effects of childhood abuse and neglect

(2016) Martin H. Teicher et al.   JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

A History of Childhood Trauma and Response to Treatment With Antipsychotics in First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients

(2016) Błażej Misiak et al.   JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE

The effects of childhood maltreatment on brain structure, function and connectivity

(2016) Martin H. Teicher et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Adversity in childhood linked to elevated striatal dopamine function in adulthood

(2016) Alice Egerton et al.   SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH

Maternal buffering beyond glucocorticoids: impact of early life stress on corticolimbic circuits that control infant responses to novelty

(2016) Brittany R. Howell et al.   Social Neuroscience

Childhood trauma predicts antidepressant response in adults with major depression: data from the randomized international study to predict optimized treatment for depression

(2016) L M Williams et al.   Translational Psychiatry

Child Maltreatment and Neural Systems Underlying Emotion Regulation

(2015) Katie A. McLaughlin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY

Effect of Early Adversity and Childhood Internalizing Symptoms on Brain Structure in Young Men

(2015) Sarah K. G. Jensen et al.   JAMA Pediatrics

The ‘Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure’ (MACE) Scale for the Retrospective Assessment of Abuse and Neglect During Development

(2015) Martin H. Teicher et al.   PLoS One

Effect of childhood maltreatment on brain structure in adult patients with major depressive disorder and healthy participants

(2014) Aisling Chaney et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY & NEUROSCIENCE

Hippocampal Atrophy in Major Depression: a Function of Childhood Maltreatment Rather than Diagnosis?

(2014) Nils Opel et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Impact of Early Life Adversity on Reward Processing in Young Adults: EEG-fMRI Results from a Prospective Study over 25 Years

(2014) Regina Boecker et al.   PLoS One

Childhood Maltreatment Affects the Serotonergic System in Male Alcohol-Dependent Individuals

(2013) Kristina J. Berglund et al.   ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Childhood Maltreatment and Psychopathology: A Case for Ecophenotypic Variants as Clinically and Neurobiologically Distinct Subtypes

(2013) Martin H. Teicher et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Decreased Cortical Representation of Genital Somatosensory Field After Childhood Sexual Abuse

(2013) Christine M. Heim et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Heightened Beta EEG Activity During Nonrapid Eye Movement Sleep in Primary Insomnia Patients With Reports of Childhood Maltreatment

(2013) Klaus Bader et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

IMPACT OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA ON THE OUTCOMES OF A PERINATAL DEPRESSION TRIAL

(2012) Nancy K. Grote et al.   DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY

Reduced Visual Cortex Gray Matter Volume and Thickness in Young Adults Who Witnessed Domestic Violence during Childhood

(2012) Akemi Tomoda et al.   PLoS One

Childhood maltreatment is associated with reduced volume in the hippocampal subfields CA3, dentate gyrus, and subiculum

(2012) M. H. Teicher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Long-Term Health Consequences of Child Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Neglect: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

(2012) Rosana E. Norman et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Childhood Maltreatment Predicts Unfavorable Course of Illness and Treatment Outcome in Depression: A Meta-Analysis

(2011) Valentina Nanni et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Corticostriatal-Limbic Gray Matter Morphology in Adolescents With Self-reported Exposure to Childhood Maltreatment

(2011) Erin E. Edmiston   ARCHIVES OF PEDIATRICS & ADOLESCENT MEDICINE

Limbic Scars: Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Maltreatment Revealed by Functional and Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging

(2011) Udo Dannlowski et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Reduced fractional anisotropy in the visual limbic pathway of young adults witnessing domestic violence in childhood

(2011) Jeewook Choi et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Hurtful Words: Association of Exposure to Peer Verbal Abuse With Elevated Psychiatric Symptom Scores and Corpus Callosum Abnormalities

(2010) Martin H. Teicher et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Toward a New Classification Framework for Research on Mental Disorders

(2010) Thomas Insel et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Childhood Adversities and Adult Psychiatric Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication I

(2010) Jennifer Greif Green et al.   ARCHIVES OF GENERAL PSYCHIATRY

Early Stress Is Associated with Alterations in the Orbitofrontal Cortex: A Tensor-Based Morphometry Investigation of Brain Structure and Behavioral Risk

(2010) J. L. Hanson et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Exposure to parental verbal abuse is associated with increased gray matter volume in superior temporal gyrus

(2010) Akemi Tomoda et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Effect of childhood physical abuse on cortisol stress response

(2010) Linda L. Carpenter et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Risk Factors for Age-Related Disease

(2009) Andrea Danese et al.   ARCHIVES OF PEDIATRICS & ADOLESCENT MEDICINE

Reduced prefrontal cortical gray matter volume in young adults exposed to harsh corporal punishment

(2009) Akemi Tomoda et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Elevated Inflammation Levels in Depressed Adults With a History of Childhood Maltreatment

(2008) Andrea Danese et al.   ARCHIVES OF GENERAL PSYCHIATRY

Preliminary Evidence for White Matter Tract Abnormalities in Young Adults Exposed to Parental Verbal Abuse

(2008) Jeewook Choi et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

The protective role of friendship on the effects of childhood abuse and depression

(2008) Abigail Powers et al.   DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY

Hippocampal and amygdala volumes in children and adults with childhood maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis

(2008) Fu L. Woon et al.   HIPPOCAMPUS

Corpus callosum in maltreated children with posttraumatic stress disorder: A diffusion tensor imaging study

(2008) Andrea P. Jackowski et al.   PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING

The link between childhood trauma and depression: Insights from HPA axis studies in humans

(2008) Christine Heim et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY