In addition, a series of studies by David Grissmer and colleagues found that
early math and reading achievement tests are not even
very good
predictors of later test results relative to other types of skills and more general knowledge.
Childhood sexual abuse and childhood physical abuse are among the strongest
predictors of psychiatric pathology and severity of clinical course, including suicide.2,4 - 14 The influence of childhood sexual abuse and childhood physical abuse on psychological development is thought to be mediated directly by changes in cognitive processing of threatening stimuli,15 - 18 resulting in enhanced negative affect to daily life stressors.19 Although there is a clear link between
early - life adversity and psychopathology,
very little is known about the molecular mechanisms responsible for the long - lasting behavioral consequences of childhood abuse.