Moderate versus
severe early life stress: Associations with stress reactivity and regulation in 10 - to 12 - year - old children
Not exact matches
Scores of animal and human studies show that
early life stress, such as
severe early social deprivation, leads to long - term changes in the brain, cognitive and social problems, and heightened susceptibility to anxiety, depression, and drug abuse in adulthood.
A healthy environment is crucial for infants» emotional well - being and future physical and mental health.1 2 Experiencing
severe adversity
early in
life can alter a child's development and lead to toxic
stress responses, impairing brain chemistry and neuronal architecture.3 For infants,
severe adversity typically takes the form of caregiver neglect and physical or emotional abuse.
Risk factors for persistent traumatic
stress reactions include prior traumatic experiences or behavioral problems, more
severe pain or exposure to frightening sights and sounds while in the hospital, subjective sense of
life threat and injury / illness severity, and more
severe early traumatic
stress reactions.