The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden EpidemicThere is now ample evidence from the preclinical and clinical fields that early life trauma has both dramatic and long lasting effects on neurobiological systems and functions that are involved in different forms of psychopathology as well as on health in general. To date, a comprehensive review of the recent research on the effects of early and later life trauma is lacking. This book fills an obvious gap in academic and clinical literature by