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SUBMITTER: Gee DG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4377225 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gee Dylan G DG Gabard-Durnam Laurel L Telzer Eva H EH Humphreys Kathryn L KL Goff Bonnie B Shapiro Mor M Flannery Jessica J Lumian Daniel S DS Fareri Dominic S DS Caldera Christina C Tottenham Nim N
Psychological science 20141003 11
Mature amygdala-prefrontal circuitry regulates affect in adulthood but shows protracted development. In altricial and semialtricial species, caregivers provide potent affect regulation when mature neurocircuitry is absent. The present investigation examined a potential mechanism through which caregivers provide regulatory influences in childhood. Children, but not adolescents, showed evidence of maternal buffering, such that maternal stimuli suppressed amygdala reactivity. In the absence of mate ...[more]