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Current Pediatric Reviews

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ISSN (Print): 1573-3963
ISSN (Online): 1875-6336

Early Adversity and Mental Health: Linking Extremely Low Birth Weight, Emotion Regulation, and Internalizing Disorders

Author(s): Jordana Waxman, Ryan J. Van Lieshout and Louis A. Schmidt

Volume 10, Issue 3, 2014

Page: [208 - 215] Pages: 8

DOI: 10.2174/157339631003140722103523

Price: $65

Abstract

The experience of early adversity can increase one’s risk of psychopathology later in life. Extremely low birth weight (ELBW) provides a unique model of early adversity that affords us the opportunity to understand how prenatal and early postnatal stressors can affect the development of emotional, biological, and behavioural systems. Since the neuroendocrine system and emotion regulation can both be negatively affected by exposure to early adversity, and dysregulation in these regulatory systems has been linked to various forms of psychopathology, it is possible that these systems could mediate and/or moderate associations between early adversity, specifically ELBW, and later internalizing disorders. In this review, we discuss evidence of an early programming hypothesis underlying psychopathology and the identification of neuroendocrine markers of early adversity that may mediate/moderate the development of psychopathology.

Keywords: Cortisol, early adversity, early programming, emotion regulation, birth weight, internalizing disorders, neuroendocrine, psychopathology, stress.


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