«Early experience can be a mediating factor on what happens to us as adults, and we need to look at things that we can do to improve parent - child bonding that can then perhaps serve
as a protective factor later,» Gurwitch says.
Not exact matches
We speculated about the nature of
late - onset ADHD: the disorder could have been masked in childhood due to
protective factors, such
as a supportive family environment.
Mice were intravenously injected with 100 ug each of lethal
factor and
protective antigen and then 48 hr
later we examined the numbers of ILC3s in different tissues
as well
as the capacity of these ILCs to produce IL - 22 or GM - CSF ex vivo.
The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of
later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve
as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and
protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10
Becoming aware of certain early - life experiences that may serve
as buffering (
protective)
factors that promote better health outcomes
later in life, even when early adversity was experienced.