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 …

Mechanisms of neuroplasticity linking early adversity to depression: developmental considerations

TC Ho, LS King - Translational psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Early exposure to psychosocial adversity is among the most potent predictors of depression.
Because depression commonly emerges prior to adulthood, we must consider the …

[HTML][HTML] Childhood adversity and vagal regulation: A systematic review and meta-analysis

C Wesarg, AL Van den Akker, NYL Oei… - Neuroscience & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Childhood adversity (CA) is associated with increased risk for physical and mental health
problems, with alterations in vagal regulation (an aspect of autonomic functioning indexed …

What is the expected human childhood? Insights from evolutionary anthropology

WE Frankenhuis, D Amir - Development and Psychopathology, 2022 - cambridge.org
In psychological research, there are often assumptions about the conditions that children
expect to encounter during their development. These assumptions shape prevailing ideas …

Migration‐related trauma and mental health among migrant children emigrating from Mexico and Central America to the United States: Effects on developmental …

EM Cohodes, S Kribakaran, P Odriozola… - Developmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Children make up over half of the world's migrants and refugees and face a multitude of
traumatic experiences prior to, during, and following migration. Here, we focus on migrant …

A systematic review of interventions to ameliorate the impact of adversity on brain development

CL McDermott, ES Norton, AP Mackey - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2023 - Elsevier
Adversity, including abuse, neglect, and poverty, impacts child brain development. However,
the developing brain is highly plastic, and some of the impacts of childhood adversity may …

Positive parenting moderates associations between childhood stress and corticolimbic structure

I Kahhalé, KR Barry, JL Hanson - PNAS nexus, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Childhood stress has a deleterious impact on youth behavior and brain development.
Resilience factors such as positive parenting (eg expressions of warmth and support) may …

Leveraging the developmental neuroscience of caregiving to promote resilience among youth exposed to adversity

DG Gee, EM Cohodes - Development and psychopathology, 2023 - cambridge.org
Early adversity is a major risk factor for the emergence of psychopathology across
development. Identifying mechanisms that support resilience, or favorable mental health …

Love on the developing brain: Maternal sensitivity and infants' neural responses to emotion in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

JA Stern, CM Kelsey, H Yancey… - Developmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Infancy is a sensitive period of development, during which experiences of parental care are
particularly important for shaping the developing brain. In a longitudinal study of N= 95 …

Early stressful experiences are associated with reduced neural responses to naturalistic emotional and social content in children

AT Park, H Richardson, UA Tooley… - Developmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
How do children's experiences relate to their naturalistic emotional and social processing?
Because children can struggle with tasks in the scanner, we collected fMRI data while 4-to …