APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

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

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Biological/Neuroscience

  • Molly Antinucci
    St. Marys College of Maryland
  • Victoria Muller Ewald
    St. Marys College of Maryland

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.

Childhood Adversity

← Poster Session VII - Research Proposal Posters