Sentences with phrase «behavior during early infancy»

Ultradian and circadian rhythms of sleep - wake and food - intake behavior during early infancy.

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OBJECTIVES: To examine the prenatal and postnatal mechanisms by which maternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) predict the early development of their offspring, specifically via biological (maternal health risk in pregnancy, infant health risk at birth) and psychosocial risk (maternal stress during and after pregnancy, as well as hostile behavior in early infancy).

This chapter focuses on the immediate outcomes of unresponsive early care during infancy, including the development of non-optimal physiological stress reactions and disorganized attachment behavior.

Smoking during pregnancy has been shown to predict antisocial behavior during later childhood and adolescence.36 — 40 Our results show that it predicts high levels of physical aggression in infancy after having controlled for many of the confounding variables that could explain the association, eg, antisocial behavior, low education, postpartum depression, and early parenthood.

Through our research, we address questions about the interpersonal, cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms that are responsible for the increasingly complex behaviors that children may acquire during infancy, early childhood, and into adolescence.