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 …

Social nonhuman animals are powerful models for studying underlying factors related to
lifelong health outcomes following early life adversities (ELAs). ELAs can be linked to …

Background Childhood maltreatment is associated with poor mental and physical health.
However, the mechanisms of gene–environment correlations and the potential causal …

Childhood adversity (CA) is associated with increased risk for physical and mental health
problems, with alterations in vagal regulation (an aspect of autonomic functioning indexed …

Abstract Callous-unemotional (CU) traits (ie, lack of remorse or guilt, callous lack of
empathy, deficient concern for the feelings of others) in youth with conduct problems confer …

Background: Over the past few decades, bullying has been recognized as a considerable
public health concern. Involvement in bullying is associated with poor long-term social and …

Despite abundant evidence of the detrimental effects of childhood adversity, its nature and
underlying mechanisms remain contested. One influential theory, the dimensional model of …

The interplay of genes and environments (GxE) is a fundamental source of variation in
behavioral and developmental outcomes. Although the role of developmental time (T) in the …

We use data from a long-running experiment in which American Indian households received
income transfers from a casino, while other households did not. Using a difference-in …

Poor quality of the early infant-parent bond predicts later child problems. Infant-parent
attachment has been suggested to influence brain development, but this association has …