Toxic stress can occur when a child experiences severe and prolonged stress without enough support. This can lead to long-term health effects and can negatively affect their development.

What was behind these stark differences? One larger factor is something we like to call the Toxic Stress Load (TSL). And it’s been hiding in plain sight for decades. The TSL is the term that ...

Lawson R. Wulsin received funding in 2010 from the Veterans Administration support a secondary analysis of data from the Framingham Heart Study, which was published and contributed in part to the ...

Resources to address and prevent early adversity provide hope and healing, helping end generational transmission of ACEs, toxic stress, and their impacts. ACEs — or Adverse Childhood ...

But in modern life social conditions have helped to create stress that is chronic — long term and persistent — and toxic to our bodies. An annual poll commissioned by the American ...

A helpful way to understand the impact of war on children is through the lens of something called toxic stress. Toxic stress refers to intense, prolonged stress stemming from continuous threats to ...

June is Raising KC month in Kansas City. It’s a program that aims to bring awareness to the long-term mental and even physical harms from toxic stress that can impact children well into adulthood.