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 …

Early life stress and development: potential mechanisms for adverse outcomes

KE Smith, SD Pollak - Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders, 2020 - Springer
Background Chronic and/or extreme stress in early life, often referred to as early adversity,
childhood trauma, or early life stress, has been associated with a wide range of adverse …

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 …

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 …

Adolescence as a pivotal period for emotion regulation development

JA Silvers - Current opinion in psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Adolescence is a dynamic period for the development of emotion regulation. For many
individuals, emotion regulation skills improve dramatically during adolescence; however, for …

The neural and computational systems of social learning

A Olsson, E Knapska, B Lindström - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Learning the value of stimuli and actions from others—social learning—adaptively
contributes to individual survival and plays a key role in cultural evolution. We review …

Beyond risk and protective factors: An adaptation-based approach to resilience

BJ Ellis, JM Bianchi, V Griskevicius… - Perspectives on …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
How does repeated or chronic childhood adversity shape social and cognitive abilities?
According to the prevailing deficit model, children from high-stress backgrounds are at risk …

The stress acceleration hypothesis: Effects of early-life adversity on emotion circuits and behavior

BL Callaghan, N Tottenham - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Early caregiving adversity is associated with poor mental health
outcomes.•Across species, adversity accelerates the developmental trajectory of emotion …

Parent-based treatment as efficacious as cognitive-behavioral therapy for childhood anxiety: A randomized noninferiority study of supportive parenting for anxious …

ER Lebowitz, C Marin, A Martino, Y Shimshoni… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective Treatment for childhood anxiety disorders is insufficient in many cases. Parent
involvement has been examined to augment child-based cognitive-behavioral therapy …

Neglect as a violation of species-expectant experience: neurodevelopmental consequences

KA McLaughlin, MA Sheridan, CA Nelson - Biological psychiatry, 2017 - Elsevier
The human brain requires a wide variety of experiences and environmental inputs in order
to develop normally. Children who are neglected by caregivers or raised in institutional …