Environmental influences on the pace of brain development

UA Tooley, DS Bassett, AP Mackey - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Childhood socio-economic status (SES), a measure of the availability of material and social
resources, is one of the strongest predictors of lifelong well-being. Here we review evidence …

Childhood adversity and neural development: A systematic review

KA McLaughlin, D Weissman… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
An extensive literature on childhood adversity and neurodevelopment has emerged over the
past decade. We evaluate two conceptual models of adversity and neurodevelopment—the …

Mechanisms linking childhood trauma exposure and psychopathology: A transdiagnostic model of risk and resilience

KA McLaughlin, NL Colich, AM Rodman… - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Transdiagnostic processes confer risk for multiple types of psychopathology
and explain the co-occurrence of different disorders. For this reason, transdiagnostic …

Rethinking concepts and categories for understanding the neurodevelopmental effects of childhood adversity

KE Smith, SD Pollak - Perspectives on psychological science, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Discovering the processes through which early adverse experiences affect children's
nervous-system development, health, and behavior is critically important for developing …

The value of dimensional models of early experience: Thinking clearly about concepts and categories

KA McLaughlin, MA Sheridan… - Perspectives on …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
We review the three prevailing approaches—specificity, cumulative risk, and dimensional
models—to conceptualizing the developmental consequences of early-life adversity and …

Examining the impact of COVID-19 on stress and coping strategies in individuals with disabilities and chronic conditions.

E Umucu, B Lee - Rehabilitation psychology, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Purpose/Objective: This study aimed to describe the perceived stress levels and coping
mechanisms related to COVID-19, and whether coping is related to well-being in people …

Practitioner review: twenty years of research with adverse childhood experience scores–advantages, disadvantages and applications to practice

RE Lacey, H Minnis - Journal of Child Psychology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Adverse childhood experience (ACE) scores have become a common
approach for considering childhood adversities and are highly influential in public policy and …

Biological aging in childhood and adolescence following experiences of threat and deprivation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

NL Colich, ML Rosen, ES Williams… - Psychological …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Life history theory argues that exposure to early life adversity (ELA) accelerates
development, although existing evidence for this varies. We present a meta-analysis and …

Early adversity and development: parsing heterogeneity and identifying pathways of risk and resilience

DG Gee - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2021 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Adversity early in life is common and is a major risk factor for the onset of psychopathology.
Delineating the neurodevelopmental pathways by which early adversity affects mental …

Developmental adaptation to stress: An evolutionary perspective

BJ Ellis, M Del Giudice - Annual review of psychology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The assumption that early stress leads to dysregulation and impairment is widespread in
developmental science and informs prevailing models (eg, toxic stress). An alternative …