Investigating the Connection between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Childhood Pituitary Gland Volume

Poster Session VII - Research Proposal Posters

Keyword: Childhood Adversity

Abstract: To examine changes in pituitary size associated with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), structural MRIs from 70 participants ages 4 - 11 will be analyzed. Data were previously collected and became available to us via a public open-access platform. We hypothesize that pituitary size will negatively correlate with ACE score.

• Molly Antinucci (Presenting Author)
• Victoria Muller Ewald (Author)