Toxic Stress in Children and Adolescents

Adv Pediatr. 2016 Aug;63(1):403-28. doi: 10.1016/j.yapd.2016.04.002.
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Keywords: Adolescent health; Adverse childhood experiences; Adversity; Child health; Chronic disease; Multisystemic alterations; Stress; Toxic stress.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult Survivors of Child Adverse Events
  • Child
  • Child Abuse / psychology
  • Epigenomics
  • Exposure to Violence / psychology
  • Family Conflict / psychology
  • Humans
  • Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System / physiology
  • Immune Tolerance / physiology
  • Life Change Events
  • Pituitary-Adrenal System / physiology
  • Stress, Physiological / physiology*
  • Stress, Psychological / physiopathology*
  • Sympathetic Nervous System / physiology