Kate McLaughlin
Executive director of the Ballmer Institute for Children's Behavioral Health at the University of Oregon and former Harvard psychology professor specializing in how childhood adversity affects brain development and mental health.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 33min
The things we carry
Karestan Koenen, psychiatric epidemiologist studying trauma’s population health effects. Jason Buenrostro, cellular biologist exploring how stress alters cells. Kate McLaughlin, children’s psychologist focused on childhood adversity and brain development. They discuss how different adversities shape bodies and brains, cellular and epigenetic memory of stress, timing and types of exposure, and how policy and social support can alter biological impacts.
