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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 The methyl-CpG binding protein 2 gene (MECP2) encodes an epigenetic transcriptional regulator implicated in neuronal plasticity. Loss-of-function mutations in this gene are the primary cause of Rett syndrome and, to a lesser degree, of other ...
Jose Vicente Torres-Pérez +8 more
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Factors Contributing to Maternal-Child Separation in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
Annals of Global Health, 2019 Background: The Haitian orphanage sector receives more than 70 million United States Dollars (USD) in foreign aid annually and continues grow; there are over 500 orphanages in Port-Au-Prince alone.
Jessica Ashley +3 more
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Parental Psychological Control: Maternal, Adolescent, and Contextual Predictors
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Parental psychological control (PC) hinders the development of autonomy, identity formation, and the attainment of self-determination and individuation of adolescents. The aim of this study was to deepen the understanding of which conditions increase the
J. Carola Pérez +3 more
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Early handling and repeated cross-fostering have opposite effect on mouse emotionality [PDF]
, 2015 Early life events have a crucial role in programming the individual phenotype and exposure to traumatic experiences during infancy can increase later risk for a variety of neuropsychiatric conditions, including mood and anxiety disorders.
Battaglia, M +6 more
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Separation anxiety in families with emerging adults [PDF]
, 2013 In several developmental theories separation anxiety has been identified as an important feature of close interpersonal relationships. Most often, separation anxiety has been examined in the context of mother-child dyads in infancy. Increasingly, however,
Beyers, Wim, Kins, Evie, Soenens, Bart
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Olfaction scaffolds the developing human from neonate to adolescent and beyond [PDF]
, 2020 The impact of the olfactory sense is regularly apparent across development. The foetus is bathed in amniotic fluid that conveys the mother’s chemical ecology.
Durand, Karine +4 more
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Serotonin and motherhood: From molecules to mood [PDF]
, 2019 Emerging research points to a valuable role of the monoamine neurotransmitter, serotonin, in the display of maternal behaviors and reproduction-associated plasticity in the maternal brain.
Li, Ming +2 more
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Early and later life stress alter brain activity and sleep in rats. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Exposure to early life stress may profoundly influence the developing brain in lasting ways. Neuropsychiatric disorders associated with early life adversity may involve neural changes reflected in EEG power as a measure of brain activity and disturbed ...
Jelena Mrdalj +7 more
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Brain Sciences, 2021 In adults, vasopressin exerts an anxiogenic effect, but less is known about the perinatal period. As a sign of distress, rat pups emit ultrasonic vocalizations when they are separated from their mothers, known as maternal separation-induced ultrasonic ...
Bibiána Török +4 more
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Influence of Maternal Care on Behavioural Development of Domestic Dogs (Canis Familiaris) Living in a Home Environment [PDF]
, 2017 Maternal care has been shown to affect the development of the brain, behaviour, social skills and emotional systems of the young of many mammalian species including dogs.
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