Sentences with phrase «promoting adaptive functioning»

In conclusion, healthy mothers with internalizing symptoms appear to have children with higher HRV, which in turn fosters strategies that promote adaptive functioning in the children.

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Interleukin 15 (IL - 15) regulates the development, survival, and functions of multiple innate and adaptive immune cells and plays a dual role in promoting both tumor cell growth and antitumor immunity.

... modern humans exist in environments that are critically different from those in which we evolved, and that our new environments interact with our ancient genomes to lead to disorder... In this perspective, these functions may or may not be adaptive in modern environments, but historically accomplishing these functions has promoted fitness and that is why the symptoms of depression have evolved.

Research focusing on precursors and risk factors for dysfunction as well as protective factors and resources that promote resilience and adaptive functioning;

Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.

Taken together, these findings suggest that although family conflict may negatively impact the parenting behavior a caregiver utilizes in the short term, such conflict may serve to promote a restructuring of the parent — child relationship over time in adaptive ways within healthy functioning families (Cooper, 1988; Holmbeck, 1996).