Early life stress and development: potential mechanisms for adverse outcomes

KE Smith, SD Pollak - Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders, 2020 - Springer
Background Chronic and/or extreme stress in early life, often referred to as early adversity,
childhood trauma, or early life stress, has been associated with a wide range of adverse …

Animal models of major depression: drawbacks and challenges

B Planchez, A Surget, C Belzung - Journal of Neural Transmission, 2019 - Springer
Major depression is a leading contributor to the global burden of disease. This situation is
mainly related to the chronicity and/or recurrence of the disorder, and to poor response to …

Adult hippocampal neurogenesis buffers stress responses and depressive behaviour

JS Snyder, A Soumier, M Brewer, J Pickel… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Glucocorticoids are released in response to stressful experiences and serve many beneficial
homeostatic functions. However, dysregulation of glucocorticoids is associated with …

The adaptive calibration model of stress responsivity

M Del Giudice, BJ Ellis, EA Shirtcliff - Neuroscience & biobehavioral reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper presents the Adaptive Calibration Model (ACM), an evolutionary–developmental
theory of individual differences in the functioning of the stress response system. The stress …

Modulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis by early life stress exposure

M Van Bodegom, JR Homberg… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Exposure to stress during critical periods in development can have severe long-term
consequences, increasing overall risk on psychopathology. One of the key stress response …

Early life adversity shapes neural circuit function during sensitive postnatal developmental periods

L Malave, MT van Dijk, C Anacker - Translational psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Early life adversity (ELA) is a major risk factor for mental illness, but the neurobiological
mechanisms by which ELA increases the risk for future psychopathology are still poorly …

Beyond risk and protective factors: An adaptation-based approach to resilience

BJ Ellis, JM Bianchi, V Griskevicius… - Perspectives on …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
How does repeated or chronic childhood adversity shape social and cognitive abilities?
According to the prevailing deficit model, children from high-stress backgrounds are at risk …

Stress effects on memory: an update and integration

L Schwabe, M Joëls, B Roozendaal, OT Wolf… - Neuroscience & …, 2012 - Elsevier
It is well known that stressful experiences may affect learning and memory processes. Less
clear is the exact nature of these stress effects on memory: both enhancing and impairing …

Chronic stress followed by social isolation promotes depressive-like behaviour, alters microglial and astrocyte biology and reduces hippocampal neurogenesis in …

A Du Preez, D Onorato, I Eiben, K Musaelyan… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Unpredictable chronic mild stress (UCMS) is one of the most commonly used, robust and
translatable models for studying the neurobiological basis of major depression. Although the …

The adverse childhood experiences questionnaire: Two decades of research on childhood trauma as a primary cause of adult mental illness, addiction, and medical …

EM Zarse, MR Neff, R Yoder, L Hulvershorn… - Cogent …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Objective. In 1998, Felitti and colleagues published the first study of the Adverse
Childhood Experiences-Questionnaire (ACE-Q), a 10-item scale used to correlate childhood …