
Evidence of the profound effect of emotional trauma on children was revealed at the 63rd annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). Esme Fuller-Thomson, Ph.D., and a team of colleagues from the University of Toronto, showed that children who experience a parental divorce are more likely to experience a stroke at some point in their lives: twice as likely, in fact, an astounding discovery given that the researchers controlled for smoking, obesity, exercise and alcohol consumption.