London Neuropsychoanalysis Group
How adversity in childhood ‘gets under the skin’: neuroscience, genetics and the concept of latent vulnerability Abstract: Childhood adversity, in the form of maltreatment and neglect, is one of the strongest predictors of later mental health problems across childhood, adolescence and adulthood. However, the epigenetic and neurobiological mechanisms by which childhood adversity ‘gets under the skin’…