Sentences with phrase «stressful early environments»

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.

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To make their discovery, Korosi and colleagues mimicked a stressful early - life environment during the first week after birth (postnatal days 2 - 9) for newborn mice and their mothers.

The same neuroplasticity that leaves emotional regulation, behavioral adaptation, and executive functioning skills vulnerable to early disruption by stressful environments also enables their successful development through focused interventions during sensitive periods in their maturation.

Twice each week she is picked up and taken to a specialized classroom where she eats two meals and interacts with early childhood specialists trained in providing a nurturing environment for children who frequently come from stressful home lives.

These biological «vulnerabilities» may place a person at increased risk for developing BPD given certain developmental factors such as prenatal stresses, infections, nutritional deficits or stressful events in the early family environment Other family members may often have BPD, Major Depression, Bipolar Illness, or problems with addiction.

In the long term, those participating children are more likely to be employed and less likely to be dependent on government assistance.9 The positive effects are larger, and more likely to be sustained, when programs are high quality.10 In addition, the impact is greatest for children from low - income families.11 Differences in children's cognitive abilities by income are evident at only nine months old and significantly widen by the time children are two years old.12 Children living in poverty are more likely to be subject to stressful home environments — which can have lifelong impacts on learning, cognition, and self - regulation — while parents living in poverty have limited resources to provide for their families and high barriers to accessing affordable, high - quality child care.13 High - quality early learning programs staffed by warm and responsive adults can help mitigate these effects, offering a safe and predictable learning environment that fosters children's development.14

«The brain develops more in the first few years than at any other time in life, and studies have identified an achievement gap as early as nine months into a child's life, separating those from rich households and those from poor households, which tend to be more stressful and less stimulating environments.