Kessiah’s Reviews > Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder > Status Update

This book definitely would help to explain why many ADHD (and, I would argue, autistic) symptoms and behaviors mirror those of CPTSD. The brain is structurally affected by stress -- this book posits that stress experiences in gestation, infancy and very early childhood have an inhibiting affect on the growth of brains in such vulnerable stages of development.