Heightened sensitivity to the caregiving environment during adolescence: implications for recovery following early-life adversity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescence has been proposed to be a period of heightened sensitivity to environmental influence. If true, adolescence may present a window of opportunity for recovery for children exposed to early-life adversity. Recent evidence supports adolescent recalibration of stress response systems following early-life adversity. However, it is unknown whether similar recovery occurs in other domains of functioning in adolescence.

Methods

We use data from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project - a randomized controlled trial of foster care for children raised in psychosocially depriving institutions - to examine the associations of the caregiving environment with reward processing, executive functioning, and internalizing and externalizing psychopathology at ages 8, 12,

SUBMITTER: Colich NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8134501 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature