Early Life Stress: Nature and Nurture [PDF]
Endocrinology, 2014 Recent and still nascent understanding of epigenetic marks, how they occur and are modified, has been an enormous boon to studies in the fields of endocrinology and neuroscience. Because the genetic DNA sequence does not usually change during the lifetime of the individual, it had been difficult to understand how marked and persistent changes in gene ...
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Life Stress Impairs Self-Control in Early Adolescence
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 The importance of self-control to a wide range of developmental outcomes prompted the current investigation of negative life events and self-control in early adolescence.
Angela Lee Duckworth +2 more
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Effect of Early Life Stress on the Epigenetic Profiles in Depression
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020 Depression is one of the most common mental disorders and has caused an overwhelming burden on world health. Abundant studies have suggested that early life stress may grant depressive-like phenotypes in adults. Childhood adversities that occurred in the
Ming Li +6 more
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Characterization of Early Life Stress-Affected Gut Microbiota
Brain Sciences, 2021 Early life stress (ELS), such as neglect and maltreatment, exhibits a strong impact on the mental and brain development of children. However, it is not fully understood how ELS affects the body and behavior of children.
Noriyoshi Usui +2 more
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Psychosocial stress experience and DNA methylation in humans - implications for stress-adaptation and -resilience [PDF]
, 2014 : Background: Psychosocial stress, especially early in life, is a risk factor for mental disorders. Recent evidence suggests that stress-related changes in epigenetic patterns, including DNA methylation, could mediate this association. Aim: to examine a
Unternaehrer, Eva
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Perceived control, loneliness, early-life stress, and parents’ perceptions of stress
Scientific Reports, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of understanding what contributes to individual variability in experiences of stress. Increases in stress related to the pandemic have been especially pronounced in parents, indicating a need for ...
Karen E. Smith +6 more
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Early-life manipulation of cortisol and its receptor alters stress axis programming and social competence [PDF]
, 2019 In many vertebrate species, early social experience generates long-term effects on later life social behaviour. These effects are accompanied by persistent modifications in the expression of genes implicated in the stress axis.
Reyes-Contreras, Maria +5 more
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Reduced resistance to oxidative stress during reproduction as a cost of early-life stress
, 2015 This study was funded by a BBSRC David Phillips Research Fellowship to K.A. Spencer.Stress exposure during early-life development can have long-term consequences for a variety of biological functions including oxidative stress.
Zimmer, C., Spencer, K.A.
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Reward-related neural correlates of early life stress in school-aged children
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2021 Objectives: Early life stress likely contributes to dysfunction in neural reward processing systems. However, studies to date have focused almost exclusively on adolescents and adults, measured early life stress retrospectively, and have often failed to ...
Nicholas M. Morelli +7 more
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Stress in healthy young women : psychophysiological stress response and sleep in the context of adverse childhood experiences and daily stress [PDF]
, 2014 The aim of the present dissertation is to contribute to the knowledge about different aspects of stress and their impact on healthy young women. The relationship between daily stress, presleep arousal, and sleep was investigated and additionally, the ...
Winzeler, Katja
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