When mothering goes awry: Challenges and opportunities for utilizing evidence across rodent, nonhuman primate and human studies to better define the biological consequences of negative early caregiving

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 77, Issue , 2016, Pages 182-192

  Drury, Stacy S ^a   Sánchez, Mar M ^b,c   Gonzalez, Andrea ^d  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross species; Development; Epigenetics; HPA axis; Maltreatment; Neurobiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD NEGLECT; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; DNA METHYLATION; EMOTIONAL ABUSE; EPIGENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIMBIC CORTEX; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; INFANT; MOTHER; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHERS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84957309425     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.10.007     Document Type: Article

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