Childhood maltreatment is associated with significant, enduring risk of psychiatric disorder.
In this paper, we review how neurocognitive alterations after maltreatment might indirectly …

Exposure to adversity in childhood is associated with elevations in numerous physical and
mental health outcomes across the life course. The biological embedding of early …

Two extant frameworks–the harshness-unpredictability model and the threat-deprivation
model–attempt to explain which dimensions of adversity have distinct influences on …

Spanking remains common around the world, despite evidence linking corporal punishment
to detrimental child outcomes. This study tested whether children (Mage= 11.60) who were …

Understanding of human brain development has advanced rapidly as the field of
developmental cognitive neuroscience (DCN) has matured into an established scientific …

Brain aging is a complex, multifaceted process that can be challenging to model in ways that
are accurate and clinically useful. One of the most common approaches has been to apply …

Children make up over half of the world's migrants and refugees and face a multitude of
traumatic experiences prior to, during, and following migration. Here, we focus on migrant …

Child abuse is associated with elevated risk for psychopathology. The current study
examined the role of automatic emotion regulation as a potential mechanism linking child …

The dimensional model of adversity proposes that experiences of threat and deprivation
have distinct neurodevelopmental consequences. We examined these dimensions …

Introduction The association between low socioeconomic status (SES) in childhood and
increased risk for psychopathology is well established, but the mechanisms explaining this …