Did childhood kill Kurt Cobain (or Jimi Hendrix)? - Philadelphia Inquirer blog

Chris Engel 1/15/1311:00 AM

"...A study published last month in the open-access medical journal BMJ Open suggests that something far earlier in their lives — exposures to extreme stress during critical periods of childhood development — may be behind a substantial portion of rock stars’ premature mortality.

These kinds of stressors are known to trauma researchers as ACEs. The name comes from the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, a large research project started in the 1990s that discovered a strong, graded relationship between childhood trauma and stress and the leading causes of adult death in the United States...."

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