Childhood Adversity and Adult Chronic Disease

Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults

Vincent J. Felitti, Robert F. Anda, Dale Nordenberg et al. · American Journal of Preventive Medicine · 1998 · 18.5K citations · Full text

Medicine, Child Health, Pediatrics +15

Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and the Childhood Roots of Health Disparities

Jack P. Shonkoff, W. Thomas Boyce, Bruce S. McEwen · JAMA · 2009 · 2.3K citations

Public Health, Health Policy, Human Development +17

Handbook of Life Stress, Cognition and Health

Larry H Pastor · American Journal of Psychiatry · 1989 · 1.4K citations

Nursing, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +12

Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Risk of Premature Mortality

David W. Brown, Robert F. Anda, Henning Tiemeier et al. · American Journal of Preventive Medicine · 2009 · 1.4K citations

Public Health, Child Health, Pediatrics +13

Allostasis: A New Paradigm to Explain Arousal Pathology

Peter Sterling · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1988 · 1.3K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Physiology +11