Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Nakazawa writes about the biology of childhood adversity: the finding that difficult early experience shows up decades later in inflammation, autoimmune disease and depression, not as a metaphor but as a measurable change. Childhood Disrupted works through the adverse childhood experiences research and what can be done afterwards. She came to it through her own autoimmune illness and paralysis, and through years of science journalism. The Angel and the Assassin is about microglia, the brain's immune cells, and the argument that they are involved in far more than anybody expected.