Threats to lifelong mental health can arise for young children from sources including poverty, abuse or neglect at home, and racism, inequity, and pollution outside their doors, a range of experts at MIT said that amid these many risks, approaches to provide effective protections and remedies are numerous and growing.
Caption: A diverse array of speakers including a panel of students, faculty, and staff discussed Outreach and Opportunities in STEM (left to right and top to bottom): Laura Schulz, Eboney Hearn, Junyi Chu, Kailande Cassamajor, Hector De Jesus Cortes, Tyler Bonnen, and Liora Jones. Credits: Image courtesy of the Picower Institute.
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A powerful series of speakers at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory’s biennial Spring Symposium, Early Life Stress and Mental Health, blended personal stories and rigorous research to demonstrate that while remedying the lifelong toxic stress and disadvantage many people incur during childhood can be difficult, it is by no means intractable.