Stress resilience is the phenomenon that some people maintain their mental health despite
exposure to adversity or show only temporary impairments followed by quick recovery …

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 …

The usefulness of current psychiatric classification, which is based on ICD/DSM categorical
diagnoses, remains questionable. A promising alternative has been put forward as the …

Highlights•Enhanced threat processing is a mechanism linking child trauma to
psychopathology.•Information processing biases and altered emotional learning are key …

Background Childhood maltreatment is a potent predictor of poor mental health across the
life span. We argue that there is a need to improve the understanding of the mechanisms …

Highlights•Acute stress can impair valuation of reward information critical to decision
making.•Acute stress influences a shift from goal-directed to habit-based decision …

Early life adversity (ELA) is associated with poorer health in adulthood, an association
explained, at least in part, by increased engagement in health‐risk behaviors (HRBs). In this …

Early life stress–including experience of child maltreatment, neglect, separation from or loss
of a parent, and other forms of adversity–increases lifetime risk of mood, anxiety, and …

The brain's response to stress is a matter of extensive neurocognitive research in an attempt
to unravel the mechanistic underpinnings of neural adaptation. In line with the broadly …

Humans are highly social beings, yet people with social anhedonia experience reduced
interest in or reward from social situations. Social anhedonia is a key facet of schizotypal …