Stress can influence health throughout the lifespan, yet there is little agreement about what types and aspects of stress matter most for human health and disease. This is in part …
Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the …
Several mental illnesses, characterized by aberrant stress reactivity, often arise after early- life adversity (ELA). However, it is unclear how ELA affects stress-related brain circuit …
Background Adverse psychosocial exposures in early life, namely experiences such as child maltreatment, caregiver stress or depression, and domestic or community violence, have …
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 …
Currently, over 300 million people worldwide have depression, and the socioeconomic burden of this debilitating disorder is anticipated to increase markedly over the coming …
KJ Koss, MR Gunnar - Journal of Child Psychology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background Research on early adversity, stress biology, and child development has grown exponentially in recent years. Findings We review the current evidence for the hypothalamic …
KA McLaughlin - Future work in clinical child and adolescent …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Despite long-standing interest in the influence of adverse early experiences on mental health, systematic scientific inquiry into childhood adversity and developmental outcomes …
Sex differences in stress responses can be found at all stages of life and are related to both the organizational and activational effects of gonadal hormones and to genes on the sex …