Sentences with phrase «early stimulation effects»

These considerations together lead to a logically inescapable conclusion that maternal care is neither sufficient nor necessary for mediating early stimulation effects on offspring development.

A large body of literature has explored the contribution of maternal care in mediating the early stimulation effect on offspring's HPA axis development.

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Using neonatal novelty exposure, a neonatal stimulation paradigm that dissociates maternal individual differences from a direct stimulation effect on the offspring, we investigated the effect of early exposures to novelty on a diverse range of psychological functions using several assessment paradigms.

Early interventions in high - risk situations have the highest return, presumably through mitigating the effects of toxic stress by providing nurturance, stimulation, and nutrition.

In this systematic review and meta - analysis, the medium - to - large effects of early childhood stimulation interventions on improving parenting outcomes in LMICs are demonstrated.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

Early childhood stunting is association with poor psychological functioning in late adolescence and effects are reduced by psychosocial stimulation