Highlights•Early caregiving adversity is associated with poor mental health
outcomes.•Across species, adversity accelerates the developmental trajectory of emotion …

Early‐life caregiving shapes the architecture and function of the developing brain. The fact
that the infant‐caregiver relationship is critically important for infant functioning across all …

Exposure to early life adversity (ELA) is associated with increased rates of psychopathology
and poor physical health. The present study builds on foundational work by Megan Gunnar …

Human brain development is optimized to learn from environmental cues. The protracted
development of the cortex and its connections with subcortical targets has been argued to …

Interest in the effects of early adversity on children's development reflects contemporary
emphases on early experience in the behavioral sciences and plasticity in the …

Although decades of research have shown associations between early caregiving adversity,
stress physiology and limbic brain volume (eg, amygdala, hippocampus), the developmental …

Exposure to childhood adversity is common and a powerful risk factor for many forms of
psychopathology. In this opinion piece, we argue for greater translation of knowledge about …

The stability of a child's early life has profound effects on physical and mental health, and
unstable parent‐child relationships, as well as abuse, can lead to behavioral disorders and …

In this chapter, I will first describe a general model in which the reactivity and regulation of
stress physiology serves as a common pathway through which many aspects of early …

Early experiences critically shape the structure and function of the brain. Perturbations in
typical/species-expected early experiences are known to have profound neural effects …