Stress causes or contributes to a huge variety of diseases and disorders. Recent evidence
suggests obesity and other eating-related disorders may be among these. Immediately after …

Prenatal exposure to maternal stress, anxiety, and depression can have lasting effects on
infant development with risk of psychopathology. Although the impact of prenatal maternal …

ABSTRACT A close association between early‐life experience and cognitive and emotional
outcomes is found in humans. In experimental models, early‐life experience can directly …

The long-term consequences of early environmental experiences for development have
been explored extensively in animal models to better understand the mechanisms mediating …

The major characteristics of the postnatal environment of the rat pup are its mother and
littermates. The pup, which is poorly developed at birth, matures rapidly in this environment …

Early maternal separation has been shown in animal models to produce enduring
morphological changes in the hippocampus and other brain structures, which may not …

Early environmental manipulations can impact on the developing nervous system,
contributing to shape individual differences in physiological and behavioral responses to …

Environmental enrichment (EE) was shown recently to accelerate brain development in
rodents. Increased levels of maternal care, and particularly tactile stimulation through licking …

Childhood trauma is known to increase risk for emotional disorders and addiction. However,
little is currently understood about the neurodevelopmental basis of these effects, or how …

Regulation of hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenocortical (HPA) axis activity by stress is a
fundamental survival mechanism and HPA-dysfunction is implicated in psychiatric disorders …