Childhood social environment, emotional reactivity to stress, and mood and anxiety disorders across the life course

Early life influences on emotional react

Early life influences on emotional reactivity: Evidence that social enrichment has greater effects than handling on anxiety-like behaviors, neuroendocrine responses to stress and central BDNF levels

✍ Francesca Cirulli; Alessandra Berry; Luca Tommaso Bonsignore; Francesca Capone; 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 653 KB

During the early post-natal phases the brain is experience-seeking and provided by a considerable plasticity which allows a fine tuning between the external environment and the developing organism. Since the early work of Seymour Levine, an impressive amount of research has clearly shown that stress