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		bawolff on June 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A possible link between childhood trauma and Alzhe... I imagine one could make an objective survey (has X happened to you) and then correlate it with later life outcomes. Presumably someone has, since it seems like an obvious way to measure the effect of trauma.

ntlk on June 2, 2021 [–]

This objective survey is called Adverse Childhood Experience and has been statistically correlated to problems in later life.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/02/3870079...

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