Accelerated pubertal development as a mechanism linking trauma exposure with depression and anxiety in adolescence

NL Colich, KA McLaughlin - Current opinion in psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Exposure to early-life adversity (ELA) is associated with elevated risk for depression and
anxiety disorders in adolescence. Identifying mechanisms through which ELA contributes to …

Earlier age at menarche as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking childhood trauma with multiple forms of psychopathology in adolescent girls

NL Colich, JM Platt, KM Keyes, JA Sumner… - Psychological …, 2020 - cambridge.org
BackgroundAlthough early life adversity (ELA) increases risk for psychopathology,
mechanisms linking ELA with the onset of psychopathology remain poorly understood …

[HTML][HTML] Sex-specific associations between trauma exposure, pubertal timing, and anxiety in black children

AF Stenson, V Michopoulos, JS Stevens… - Frontiers in human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recent research has linked early life stress (ELS), such as trauma exposure, with early
puberty. Early puberty has also been identified as a risk factor for poor mental health …

Associations among early life adversity, sleep disturbances, and depressive symptoms in adolescent females and males: A longitudinal investigation

JP Uy, IH Gotlib - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Exposure to adversity early in life (ELA) has been associated with elevated risk
for depression during adolescence, particularly for females; the mechanisms underlying this …

Cognitive vulnerabilities amplify the effect of early pubertal timing on interpersonal stress generation during adolescence

JL Hamilton, JP Stange, EM Kleiman, EJ Hamlat… - Journal of Youth and …, 2014 - Springer
Early pubertal timing has been found to confer risk for the occurrence of interpersonal
stressful events during adolescence. However, pre-existing vulnerabilities may exacerbate …

Early childhood adversity and adolescent depression: the mediating role of continued stress

NA Hazel, C Hammen, PA Brennan… - Psychological …, 2008 - cambridge.org
BackgroundWhile various conceptualizations of the link between childhood adversity and
later depression have been offered, most have not accounted for the possibility that early …

[HTML][HTML] Childhood trauma, earlier pubertal timing, and psychopathology in adolescence: The role of corticolimbic development

NL Colich, LC Hanford, DG Weissman, NB Allen… - Developmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Earlier pubertal development appears to be one pathway through which childhood trauma
contributes to psychopathology in adolescence. Puberty-related changes in neural networks …

Early experiences of threat, but not deprivation, are associated with accelerated biological aging in children and adolescents

JA Sumner, NL Colich, M Uddin, D Armstrong… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Recent conceptual models argue that early life adversity (ELA) accelerates
development, which may contribute to poor mental and physical health outcomes. Evidence …

Childhood adversity and adult health-risk behaviors: Examining the roles of emotion dysregulation and urgency

HC Espeleta, EI Brett, LE Ridings, ELS Leavens… - Child Abuse & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are important public health concerns, with links to
higher prevalence rates of both health-risk behaviors and physical health difficulties in …

Effects of early life adversity on pubertal timing and tempo in black and white girls: the National growth and health study

EJ Hamlat, B Laraia, ME Bleil, J Deardorff… - Psychosomatic …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objective Although exposure to abuse in early life predicts earlier pubertal timing, especially
for girls, it is unclear if this association generalizes to nonabuse stressors. In addition, the …