Abstract Changes in levels of the stress-sensitive hormone cortisol from morning to evening
are referred to as diurnal cortisol slopes. Flatter diurnal cortisol slopes have been proposed …

Objective Research and clinical interest in irritability have been on the rise in recent years.
Yet several questions remain about the status of irritability in psychiatry, including whether …

" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

Given the centrality of both parent–child attachment and emotion regulation in children's
development and adjustment, it is important to evaluate the relations between these …

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 …

Young children who have experienced early adversity are at risk for developing
disorganized attachments. The efficacy of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up (ABC) …

Aim To evaluate the effects of almost continuous skin-to-skin contact (SSC) on salivary
cortisol, parental stress, parental depression, and breastfeeding. Study design This is a …

The human body contains as many bacteria in the intestine as the total number of human
body cells. These bacteria have a central position in human health and disease, and would …

How do exposures to stress affect biobehavioral development and, through it, psychiatric
and biomedical disorder? In the health sciences, the allostatic load model provides a widely …

Childhood adversity has been repeatedly and robustly linked to physical and mental illness
across the lifespan. Yet, the biological pathways through which this occurs remain unclear …