Promoting brain health through physical activity among adults exposed to early life adversity: Potential mechanisms and theoretical framework

SD Donofry, CM Stillman, JL Hanson… - Neuroscience & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Adverse childhood experiences such as abuse, neglect, and poverty, profoundly alter
neurobehavioral development in a manner that negatively impacts health across the …

Perceived stress is linked to heightened biomarkers of inflammation via diurnal cortisol in a national sample of adults

EL Knight, Y Jiang, J Rodriguez-Stanley… - Brain, Behavior, and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Exposure to and perceptions of stress have been associated with altered systemic
inflammation, but the intermediate processes by which stress links to inflammation are not …

Adverse childhood experiences amplify the longitudinal associations of adult daily stress and health

J Kong, Y Liu, J Goldberg, DM Almeida - Child abuse & neglect, 2021 - Elsevier
Background and objective The long-term negative impact of Adverse Childhood
Experiences (ACEs) is now well-recognized; however, little research has explored the link …

Endocrine and immunomodulatory effects of social isolation and loneliness across adulthood

S Zilioli, Y Jiang - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2021 - Elsevier
Experimental and observational evidence agreed on two interconnected biological
mechanisms responsible for the links between social isolation/loneliness and health …

Early maternal loss leads to short-but not long-term effects on diurnal cortisol slopes in wild chimpanzees

C Girard-Buttoz, PJ Tkaczynski, L Samuni, P Fedurek… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The biological embedding model (BEM) suggests that fitness costs of maternal loss arise
when early-life experience embeds long-term alterations to hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal …

The mixed benefits of a stressor-free life.

ST Charles, J Mogle, HW Chai, DM Almeida - Emotion, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Research documents the pernicious effects of daily stressors on well-being, but often
ignored in these studies are people reporting no stressors. The current study compared …

Associations of maternal trait anger expression and lifetime traumatic and non-traumatic experiences with preterm birth

W Cowell, L Taing, T Askowitz… - Maternal and Child …, 2021 - Springer
Objectives Most studies examining psychosocial factors contributing to preterm birth (PTB)
have focused on negative life events. Studies examining the influence of negative emotion …

Loneliness Mediates the Relationship Between Early Life Stress and Perceived Stress but not Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Functioning

I Crespo-Sanmiguel, M Zapater-Fajarí… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Many authors have proposed that early life stress (ELS) provokes a dysregulation of the
hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis and contributes negatively to the management of …

The relationship of childhood adversity with diurnal cortisol patterns and C-reactive protein at 60–64 years of age in the 1946 National Survey of Health and …

E Robson, T Norris, M Hamer, S Costa, R Hardy… - …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Early life adversity is increasingly prevalent and associated with greater
morbidity and mortality. It is hypothesised that the link between psychosocial early life …