{"id":88847,"date":"2019-03-21T09:42:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T16:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/childhood-trauma-scars-the-brain-and-boosts-depression-risk"},"modified":"2019-03-21T09:42:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T16:42:46","slug":"childhood-trauma-scars-the-brain-and-boosts-depression-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/childhood-trauma-scars-the-brain-and-boosts-depression-risk","title":{"rendered":"Childhood trauma scars the brain and boosts depression risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/childhood-trauma-scars-the-brain-and-boosts-depression-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Childhood trauma such as neglectful parenting causes physical scarring to the brain and increases the risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/depression\/\">severe depression<\/a>, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have linked changes in the structure of the brain both to traumatic early-years experiences and poor mental health in later life.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the Lancet, the study found a \u201csignificant\u201d link between adults who had experienced maltreatment as children with a smaller insular cortex, part of the brain believed to help regulate emotion.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/03\/21\/childhood-trauma-scars-brain-boosts-depression-risk\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/03\/21\/childhood-tra...sion-risk\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Childhood trauma such as neglectful parenting causes physical scarring to the brain and increases the risk of severe depression, a new study has found. For the first time, scientists have linked changes in the structure of the brain both to traumatic early-years experiences and poor mental health in later life. Published in the Lancet, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}