Emotional abuse may be as harmful as physical abuse and neglect. This finding led by a team of researchers at McGill complements previous imaging research showing that emotional and physical pain both ...

A professor of developmental psychology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities has been awarded the 2012 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize for his research on the consequences of child maltreatment ...

Differences in basic memory processes between maltreated and nonmaltreated children were examined in an experiment in which middle-socioeconomic-status (SES; N = 60), low-SES maltreated (N = 48), and ...

Seth D. Pollak, Dante Cicchetti, Rafael Klorman and Joan T. Brumaghim Cognitive event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 23 maltreated and 21 nonmaltreated children. Children were presented ...