«The effects of
adverse early childhood environments persist over a lifetime.»
Not exact matches
Research most clearly demonstrating this relationship includes evidence that low
childhood socioeconomic status (SES) predicts adult health outcomes, controlling for adult SES (13) and evidence that a harsh
early family
environment marked by abuse, conflict, cold nonnurturant parenting, or neglect predicts
adverse health outcomes (12).
Males on this chronic physical aggression (CPA) trajectory tend to grow - up in
adverse family
environments [4], [7]--[9], have lower cognitive abilities [10], tend to be rejected by their peers from
early childhood onwards [11] and have numerous physical, mental and social problems such as accidents, hyperactivity, school failure, substance abuse and unemployment [4], [5], [10], [12]--[14].
Previous studies on telomere length in children focused on severe environmental adversities in
early childhood such as living in institutions23 and prenatal tobacco exposure, 24 and demonstrated that the
adverse living
environment led to telomere shortening in exposed children.
Thus, differences in alpha power in middle
childhood may reflect perturbed neural development as a function of
adverse early life experiences and a violation of the expectable
environment for young children across
childhood.