Emotionally Neglected Children May Have Higher Risk of Stroke as Adults

New research suggests that children who are emotionally neglected have a higher risk of stroke in adulthood. The study appears in the Sept. 19, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

“Studies have shown that children who were neglected emotionally in childhood are at an increased risk of a slew of psychiatric disorders; however, our study is one of few that look at an association between emotional neglect and stroke,” says study author Robert S. Wilson, PhD, of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. For more information, click here to read the full release.