Biological aging in childhood and adolescence following experiences of threat and deprivation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

NL Colich, ML Rosen, ES Williams… - Psychological …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Life history theory argues that exposure to early life adversity (ELA) accelerates
development, although existing evidence for this varies. We present a meta-analysis and …

Early developmental conditioning of later health and disease: physiology or pathophysiology?

MA Hanson, PD Gluckman - Physiological reviews, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
Extensive experimental animal studies and epidemiological observations have shown that
environmental influences during early development affect the risk of later pathophysiological …

Why and how does early adversity influence development? Toward an integrated model of dimensions of environmental experience

BJ Ellis, MA Sheridan, J Belsky… - Development and …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Two extant frameworks–the harshness-unpredictability model and the threat-deprivation
model–attempt to explain which dimensions of adversity have distinct influences on …

Hidden talents in harsh environments

BJ Ellis, LS Abrams, AS Masten… - Development and …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Although early-life adversity can undermine healthy development, children growing up in
harsh environments may develop intact, or even enhanced, skills for solving problems in …

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 …

Changes in cognitive flexibility and hypothesis search across human life history from childhood to adolescence to adulthood

A Gopnik, S O'Grady, CG Lucas… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
How was the evolution of our unique biological life history related to distinctive human
developments in cognition and culture? We suggest that the extended human childhood and …

Early experiences of threat, but not deprivation, are associated with accelerated biological aging in children and adolescents

JA Sumner, NL Colich, M Uddin, D Armstrong… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Recent conceptual models argue that early life adversity (ELA) accelerates
development, which may contribute to poor mental and physical health outcomes. Evidence …

Early adversity and the development of explore–exploit tradeoffs

WE Frankenhuis, A Gopnik - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Childhood adversity can have wide-ranging and long-lasting effects on later life. But what
are the mechanisms that are responsible for these effects? This article brings together the …

Early adversity and development: parsing heterogeneity and identifying pathways of risk and resilience

DG Gee - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2021 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Adversity early in life is common and is a major risk factor for the onset of psychopathology.
Delineating the neurodevelopmental pathways by which early adversity affects mental …

The biology of developmental plasticity and the Predictive Adaptive Response hypothesis

P Bateson, P Gluckman, M Hanson - The Journal of physiology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Many forms of developmental plasticity have been observed and these are usually
beneficial to the organism. The Predictive Adaptive Response (PAR) hypothesis refers to a …