Sentences with phrase «early environment»

We have taken several steps in our research to ensure that a reporting bias does not account for the assessment of early environment.

So there is tremendous resilience in the system and when there is damage it's usually because there is an interaction between early environments and later environments.

Personal success for a child, including his later achievement and adjustment in school and elsewhere in life, depends to a large degree upon a stable, predictable, consistent early environment.

His team studies how early environment shapes behavior, work that involves separating young monkeys from their mothers, measuring their addiction to alcohol, and monitoring their long - term stress levels.

They offer accounts on differential life history strategies (slow, less risky; fast, risky), in psychological acceleration, depending on early environment quality.

In one study (15), we enrolled young adults whose early environments had been assessed through questionnaires and interviews.

Our laboratory has explored whether there are identifiable stress - related alterations in biological stress regulatory systems that result from an adverse early environment.

In early environments, the association between stress perception and risk of subsequent wounding was such that evolution favoured organisms that preferentially activated inflammatory systems.

Offspring from harsh early environments also show ineffective coping that does not reduce their stress (12).

Future research is needed to determine the specific aspects of improved caregiving quality that remediate the effects of adverse early environments on stress response system development.

Adverse early environments create deficits in skills and abilities that drive down productivity and increase social costs — thereby adding to financial deficits borne by the public.

Moving from early environments such as The Street (1960), The Store (1961), and Bedroom Ensemble (1963), Oldenburg then developed a series of soft sculptures, created with the participation with his first wife Patty Mucha.

Factors such as early environment, diet and antibiotic exposure have a lot to do with why people differ from one another in the composition of their microbiomes.

Among men only, those from the harshest early environments also showed elevated heart rate and blood pressure, changes that may be prognostic for the long - term development of hypertension or heart disease.

Our findings suggest that early intervention research with children born preterm should focus on promoting supportive early environments, particularly parental sensitivity to infant cues.

Just as the experiences of early childhood make the brain vulnerable to toxic early environments, quality experiences provide tremendous opportunity for positive brain development («Brain Architecture,» n.d.).

Handling, socialization, and early environment play a major role, but bunnies are not blank slates.

In August 2011, Bungie showed off early environment screenshot renders and some extra footage of an early - in - development Destiny.

Because a nurturant early environment has been tied to better regulation of stress responses, a viable hypothesis is that a supportive family environment will be tied to greater cortical responses to threat and consequent lesser amygdala reactivity; activity in the amygdala and the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (RVLPFC) have been found to be negatively related in response to threat cues (17).

«Certainly a stable early environment is important, but focusing so much attention on attachment issues can make compelling social and racial issues simply disappear.

Reflecting this neural activity, people from harsh early environments cope poorly by responding ineffectively to cues suggesting threat.

A grant funding a network of scientists studying the effects of stressful early environments on the developing brain and interventions that can remediate these effects.

The former is fashioned by predictable early environments and the latter by unpredictable ones, for example.

The neuroscientific research tells us that when kids are in early environments that are responsive, interactive, and warm and stable, and involve what psychologists sometimes call «serve and return» parenting, which involves face - to - face, back - and - forth interactions between parents and their babies, that creates secure attachment — a real sense of security that kids have with parents or other caregivers.

«It has implications for early environments on Earth... and also the potential for telling us about refuges during prolonged freeze - ups.»

Children from harsh early environments show higher levels of avoidant coping, which means that they try not to deal with stressors if it is possible to avoid them.

«Personal success for the child, including his later achievement and adjustment in school, depends to a large degree upon a stable, predictable, consistent early environment.

«This is the first example of how early environment can alter gene expression without mutating the gene itself,» Jirtle says.

Consistent with this hypothesis, we (24) found that people homozygous for the short allele have significantly greater risk for depression if they have experienced a harsh early family environment, but significantly less risk for depression if they come from a supportive early environment, compared to people who are s / l or l / l (see Fig. 3).

Although prospective studies are clearly desirable in delineating the role of early environment in the development of later - life aggressive behavior, such investigations face daunting methodological difficulties.

Whether we have basic hope is partly a matter of our genes and of our early environment.

Close, nurturing relationships with parents or other caregivers, he writes, have been shown to engender resilience in children that insulates them from many of the worst effects of a harsh early environment.

The sequence of development is laid out genetically but the early environment is the major contributor to how well the systems work.

Moreover, giftedness is partly genetic, and partly to do with the child's early environment and upbringing.

Music Together is based on the knowledge that all children can learn to sing in tune, keep a beat, and participate with confidence in the music of our culture, provided that their early environment supports such learning.

«We're trying to reconstruct the functioning of early life and early environments,» said Katsev.

A model of the early environment will help determine whether Mars was conducive to life, Mahaffy says.

Researchers say this indicates the fish develop more attuned social behaviour as a result of early environments.

But human evolutionary biologist Peter Ellison of Harvard University says he doesn't think the researchers have actually proved that these boys» rapid maturation is an adaptive response to the early environment.

Parents went to great lengths to build an early environment for talent growth and to later provide optimal coaching, maximize practice and competition opportunities, and fuel desire.»

The paper, published in the journal Scientific Reports, is entitled: «Persistent social isolation reflects identity and social context but not maternal effects or early environment.»

Archaeologists studying totoaba bones from Rancho Punta Estrella — a site in Baja California occupied by humans 10,000 years ago and then again 5000 years ago — used a special bone from the fish's inner ear, called an otolith, to help them reconstruct the totoaba's early environment.

This work is in line with the mission of the NICHD Center for Research for Mothers and Children, will be instrumental in informing policies designed to improve the early environments of young children from low - SES families, and may potentially help prevent the SES achievement gap from substantiating.

Thus, a good breeder will provide a genetic background and early environment that maximize the probability of producing physically and mentally healthy puppies.