The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity—A Transformative Guide to Understanding Childhood Trauma and Health

by Nadine Burke Harris

We know that early adversity activates the brain pathways that are associated with vigilance, poor impulse control, increased fear, and inhibition of executive functioning. But if we can identify kids who are at high risk for toxic stress early enough, we can intervene in time to take advantage of high levels of both synaptic and cellular