By Dr. Sunita Rai Teicher, 2010, shared some interesting facts on how early stress programs our stress hormone systems to have a more exaggerated and prolonged response to subsequent stressors. He shared further on how the impact of early stress on the developing brain depends on timing, vulnerability of specific brain regions, and genetic factors. There was greater corpus callosum area reduction in maltreated children and adolescent which affected their left and right brain