Annual research review: childhood maltreatment, latent vulnerability and the shift to preventative psychiatry–the contribution of functional brain imaging

EJ McCrory, MI Gerin, E Viding - Journal of child psychology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background Childhood maltreatment is a potent predictor of poor mental health across the
life span. We argue that there is a need to improve the understanding of the mechanisms …

Neural contributors to trauma resilience: a review of longitudinal neuroimaging studies

AR Roeckner, KI Oliver, LAM Lebois… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
Resilience in the face of major life stressors is changeable over time and with experience.
Accordingly, differing sets of neurobiological factors may contribute to an adaptive stress …

[HTML][HTML] The ecology of human fear: survival optimization and the nervous system

D Mobbs, CC Hagan, T Dalgleish, B Silston… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
We propose a Survival Optimization System (SOS) to account for the strategies that humans
and other animals use to defend against recurring and novel threats. The SOS attempts to …

Adolescent friendships predict later resilient functioning across psychosocial domains in a healthy community cohort

AL Van Harmelen, RA Kievit, K Ioannidis… - Psychological …, 2017 - cambridge.org
BackgroundAdolescence is a key time period for the emergence of psychosocial and mental
health difficulties. To promote adolescent adaptive ('resilient') psychosocial functioning …

Maternal systemic interleukin-6 during pregnancy is associated with newborn amygdala phenotypes and subsequent behavior at 2 years of age

AM Graham, JM Rasmussen, MD Rudolph, CM Heim… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Maternal inflammation during pregnancy increases the risk for offspring
psychiatric disorders and other adverse long-term health outcomes. The influence of …

Childhood maltreatment is associated with altered fear circuitry and increased internalizing symptoms by late adolescence

RJ Herringa, RM Birn, PL Ruttle… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Maltreatment during childhood is a major risk factor for anxiety and depression, which are
major public health problems. However, the underlying brain mechanism linking …

The theory of latent vulnerability: Reconceptualizing the link between childhood maltreatment and psychiatric disorder

EJ McCrory, E Viding - Development and psychopathology, 2015 - cambridge.org
Maltreatment in childhood is associated with a significantly increased likelihood of
psychiatric disorder that endures across the life span. If disorders emerge they tend to be …

[HTML][HTML] Heightened neural reactivity to threat in child victims of family violence

EJ McCrory, SA De Brito, CL Sebastian, A Mechelli… - Current Biology, 2011 - cell.com
Exposure to family violence affects a significant minority of children: estimates of physical
abuse range from 4 to 16%, while intimate partner violence affects between 8 and 25% of …

[HTML][HTML] The role of habit in compulsivity

CM Gillan, TW Robbins, BJ Sahakian… - European …, 2016 - Elsevier
Compulsivity has been recently characterized as a manifestation of an imbalance between
the brain׳ s goal-directed and habit-learning systems. Habits are perhaps the most …

A causal model of post-traumatic stress disorder: disentangling predisposed from acquired neural abnormalities

R Admon, MR Milad, T Hendler - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2013 - cell.com
Discriminating neural abnormalities into the causes versus consequences of
psychopathology would enhance the translation of neuroimaging findings into clinical …