"Her previous research, done in the United States, showed that young Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans with PTSD were exhibiting symptoms of heart disease and other ailments usually seen in much older people. This research led her to focus on the...
"Risk factors like race and poverty are not the predictors they have been assumed to be," said Papachristos, "It's who you hang out with that gets you into trouble. It's tragic, but not random." "The study, co-authored with Christopher Wildeman from...
"Nonprofit production company Artistic Circles has a 25-year history of focusing on difficult issues, telling stories that would otherwise go untold. We create "collaborative media for the common good,” producing powerful radio and TV...
"Living in a violence-plagued neighborhood may cause such great stress that a person's gene expression may be altered. These are the findings of Katherine Theall, Stacy Drury and an interdisciplinary team of Tulane University researchers.... "In their...
"Children who have gone through trying times are more likely to be overweight by age 15, a new study suggests. "Stress in childhood has been associated with a greater risk of becoming overweight, although the link isn't always consistent from study to...
This post features ACEsConnection member Dr. Robert Anda. "Dr. Robert Anda, MD, MS is the co-founder of ACE Interface, LLC and the co-founder and co-principal investigator for the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. He has conducted research in...
ACEsConnection member, Dr. Robert Anda, is mentioned in this article. "Erika Meyer, a supervisor in Ongoing Case Management at Integrated Family Services (IFS), has been hired as project coordinator for St. Aemilian-Lakeside’s $450,000 grant...
"Last week, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies had its annual meeting in Philadelphia. I was there, and discussions abound about “Criterion A.” Contrary to what its name might suggest, Criterion...
"The medical profession has issued new guidelines for fighting the nation's obesity epidemic, and they urge physicians to be a lot more aggressive about helping patients drop those extra pounds. "Doctors should calculate your body mass index , a...
"Vietnam War veterans suffering from PTSD may also be at risk for an even more debilitating health condition – heart disease. "In a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), male twin Vietnam veterans with PTSD were twice as...
"Abt Associates has been awarded a contract from the Office of Women’s Health (OWH) to evaluate its National Training Initiative on Trauma-Informed Care for Community-Based Providers. “Women and girls who are victims of trauma can be...
Greetings everyone! We are happy to announce the live website of the Maine Resilience Building Network . Check out the site -- maineaces.org! Looking forward to connecting more folks in Maine doing ACEs and resilience work.
The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles sees a steady flow of people coming through their doors, but was as surprised as we were by the number of service providers flocking to the launch of the Trauma Informed Nonviolent Standards of Care on October...
[Must-read] Abstract Initial research on loss and potentially traumatic events (PTEs) has been dominated by either a psychopathological approach emphasizing individual dysfunction or an event approach emphasizing average differences between exposed and non exposed groups. We consider the limitations of these approaches and review more recent research that has focused on the heterogeneity of outcomes following aversive events. Using both traditional analytic tools and sophisticated latent...
“Ten years ago they went to the (Massachusetts Department of Children and Families), the police station, the district attorney’s office and the emergency department at a hospital (to be treated and interviewed),” she said....