Pediatrician Archives - Novak Djokovic Foundation https://novakdjokovicfoundation.org/tag/pediatrician/ Believe in their dreams Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:19:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Ted Talks: How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime https://novakdjokovicfoundation.org/ted-talks-how-childhood-trauma-affects-health-across-a-lifetime/ Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://novakdjokovicfoundation.org/ted-talks-how-childhood-trauma-affects-health-across-a-lifetime/ Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health […]

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]]> Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.

This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.

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