The developing HPA axis is under strong social regulation in infancy and early childhood
and is vulnerable to perturbation in the absence of sensitive, responsive caregiving. Child …

This paper integrates the cumulative stress hypothesis with the mismatch hypothesis, taking
into account individual differences in sensitivity to programming. According to the cumulative …

Under typical conditions, medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) connections with the amygdala
are immature during childhood and become adult-like during adolescence. Rodent models …

Doplněné a přepracované vydání oblíbené publikace se zabývá psychickým vývojem
jedince v období dětství a dospívání. Tento vývoj je analyzován z různých hledisek: se …

Children exposed to institutional care often suffer from “structural neglect” which may include
minimum physical resources, unfavorable and unstable staffing patterns, and socially …

Early adversity, for example poor caregiving, can have profound effects on emotional
development. Orphanage rearing, even in the best circumstances, lies outside of the bounds …

This widely used practitioner resource and course text provides an engaging overview of
developmental theory and research, with a focus on what practitioners need to know. The …

ContextInternational adoption involves more than 40 000 children a year moving among
more than 100 countries. Before adoption, international adoptees often experience …

A functional neuroimaging study examined the long‐term neural correlates of early adverse
rearing conditions in humans as they relate to socio‐emotional development. Previously …

Adopted children are hypothesized to be at risk of insecure attachment relationships
because of their background of institutional care, maltreatment and neglect. We conducted …