作者
Bridget L Callaghan, Nim Tottenham
发表日期
2016/2/1
来源
Current opinion in behavioral sciences
卷号
7
页码范围
76-81
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Highlights
- Early caregiving adversity is associated with poor mental health outcomes.
- Across species, adversity accelerates the developmental trajectory of emotion circuits.
- Accelerated development may reflect an adaptive strategy for low parental care contexts.
- Changes to the pace of development may change the nature of mature phenotypes.
- A model is proposed that provides a neurobiological mechanism by which early experiences lead to changes in emotional phenotypes.
The importance of early experiences for mental health across the lifespan is well recognized. In particular, there is a strong association between adverse caregiving experiences and mental illness. However, relative to studies assessing outcomes in adults, there are far fewer studies assessing the earlier emerging manifestations of caregiving adversity during development. This lack of developmental research limits an understanding of the …
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