Investigating the developmental sequelae of early life stress has provided researchers the
opportunity to examine adaptive responses to extreme environments. A large body of work …

Over the last fifteen years, the emerging field of developmental cognitive neuroscience has
described the relatively late development of prefrontal cortex in children and the relation …

Despite rapidly growing research on parental influences on children's executive function
(EF), the uniqueness and specificity of parental predictors and links between adult EF and …

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology is a comprehensive introduction to the field. It
covers theoretical and methodological foundations and examines the characteristics …

An earlier meta-analysis and review indicated that trauma exposure may be related to lower
levels of executive functioning in youth. Since different developmental trajectories were …

Background The dominant view based on the deficit model of developmental
psychopathology is that early adverse rearing impairs cognition. In contrast, an emerging …

Psychosocial acceleration theory and other frameworks adapted from life history predict a
link between early life stress and accelerated maturation in several physiological systems …

We review a series of interrelated studies on the development of children residing in
institutions (ie, orphanages) in the Russian Federation or placed with families in the USA …

Infants and children are the often-ignored heroes when it comes to understanding human
evolution. Evolutionary pressures acted upon the young of our ancestors more powerfully …

Perceived stress has been associated with decreased hippocampal, amygdala, and
prefrontal cortex volume, as well as decreased memory and executive functioning …