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3-121 - Neurobiological underpinnings of early life stress: Impact across systems, measures and populations
Sat, April 8, 12:30 to 2:00pm, Austin Convention Center, Meeting Room 13BSession Type: Paper Session
Integrative Statement
Early life stress exerts a deleterious and persistent effect on child development across a range of physiological systems, neural circuits, and biobehavioral processes, setting the child up for a host of risk factors for poor health and wellbeing. This effect emerges early, even when youth are still relatively healthy merely as a function of young age. The papers selected here illustrate the impact of early life stress across a variety of definitions of early life stress (e.g., poverty, violence exposure, neglect) and demonstrate this impact across measures (hippocampal volume, diurnal cortisol, attentional bias to threat, neural connectivity) and across different populations. The convergence of findings demonstrates the profound impact of early life stress and calls attention to the need for prevention efforts aimed at reducing the earliest signs of adversity.
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Severity of Stress in Early Life Predicts Smaller Hippocampal Volume - Presenting Author: Kathryn L. Humphreys, Stanford University; Matthew D Sacchet, Stanford University; M. C. Camacho, Stanford University; Lucy S. King, Stanford University; Sarah J. Ordaz, Stanford University; Natalie Lisanne Colich, Stanford University; Tiffany C. Ho, Stanford University; Ian H. Gotlib, Stanford University
Associations of Early Life Adversity and Diurnal Cortisol Rhythm in Adolescence - Presenting Author: Courtenay Lorraine Kessler, Northwestern University; Suzanne Vrshek-Schallhorn, University of North Carolina - Greensboro; Emma Adam, Northwestern University
Childhood poverty related decreases in regional gray matter volume are associated with increased attentional bias to threat - Presenting Author: Alexander Dufford, University of Denver; Christina Congleton, University of Denver; Pilyoung Kim, University of Denver
Childhood violence exposure and neural systems underlying emotional working memory - Presenting Author: Jessica L. Jenness, University of Washington; Maya L. Rosen, University of Washington; Kelly A. Sambrook, University of Washington; Meg J. Dennison, University of Washington; Margaret A. Sheridan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Katie McLaughlin, University of Washington