For example, poorer mental health across ages 3-14 resulting from early-life adversity accounted for 59% of the variance in poorer working memory performance at age 11 and explained 70% of poorer ...

Frailty is a clinical syndrome marked by an overall decline in physical resilience and increased vulnerability to adverse health outcomes. As populations age globally, it is becoming an increasingly ...

Adverse life circumstances in early childhood, such as poverty, homelessness, family conflict, parental separation, harsh parental discipline, parental mental illness, parental violence, or chronic ...

New research published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry indicates that early-life adversity - such as homelessness, parental violence, or longstanding illness in the family - may lead ...

The word “disability” is a loaded one, and often, people conjure up images depicting the negative aspects of disability. We believe (often erroneously) that people with physical or sensory limitations ...

In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers examined the role of different adversities experienced at different life course stages on cognitive aging (i.e., level and ...

Below, Jay Belsky shares five key insights from his new book, The Nature of Nurture: Rethinking Why and How Childhood Adversity Shapes Development. Belsky is emeritus professor of human development at ...

There's something most species -- from baboons to humans to horses -- have in common: When they suffer serious adversity early in life, they're more likely to experience hardship later on in life.

When we talk about the "school of hard knocks," we're typically referring to wisdom gained by navigating difficult circumstances and adversity. This learning is often marked by hardship, and the ...