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Interview with Donna Jackson Nakazawa about how childhood adversity and trauma not only adversely affect our emotional lives but our physical well being as adults, and how we can reset our biology and help ourselves and our loved ones to heal.
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It's one of most paradigm-shifting and powerful stories in the history of medicine, writes Donna Jackson Nakazawa. From MS to Parkinson's to Lupus and depression and schizophrenia the microglia, a tiny brain cell, is changing how we understand physical and psychiatric illness.
In my keynote for the 2019 New Jersey Prevention Network Annual Conference in Atlantic City, I explain how childhood adversity can change body and brain, triggering epigenetic shifts that affect physical and mental health later in life; why girls are at higher risk for Adverse Childhood Experiences...