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strange question to put to us -- there aren't "any" (at least not many) academic heavyweights on this list. What's your supervisor think of it? Who's your supervisor? Is it Richie Poulton? I can appreciate the difficulty in asking him his opinion of the paper, since he co-authored it, but ...?

Despite Danese and his colleagues having extensive experience in this field, the paper you refer to doesn't seem to have covered the literature extensively. Aren't there more comprehensive papers written even more recently on this topic. After all, the literature in this field goes back a fair way now.

Is your interest only in the childhood effects of interpersonal trauma? Doesn't the literature show the cognitive (neuropsychological / neurological) effects continue to be felt for decades -- perhaps even over the whole course of someone's life -- even on into dementia and other "neurodevelopmental" and neurodegenerative disorders -- isn't that the sort of literature you need to survey if your focus is on "trauma informed care"?  What's so special about this particular article, especially since it seems to miss out some of the other important work?

How about putting the question to other researchers in the field -- you might like to ask Anne-Laura van Harmelen who did some research in the early 2010's to see if she's revised her earlier opinions about the causative effects of brain impairment being trauma-related -- she's likely to have a similar opinion as Danese since she's written recently with him, but then again ...

Certainly authors of other research beginning to look at an etiological role for childhood stress disturbing normal neurological development would tend not to agree with Danese.  I always think when critiquing papers one needs to ask from within what sociocultural milieu is the author writing and what influence might that have on the views they express, and here one would be asking primarily about that of Danese (and Poulton), and how is that also evident from their earlier writings,

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