A Correlation Found Between Childhood Adversity and Exaggerated Inflammatory Response to Stress Among Seemingly Healthy People

Medical News Today -- Seemingly healthy adults, if they were abused or neglected during childhood, may suffer physiological consequences decades later. In research published online by the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, a team led by psychiatrists at Brown University and Butler Hospital found that healthy adults who reported being mistreated as kids appear to have an elevated inflammatory response to stress compared to adults who had happier childhoods.