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Maternal care and the development of stress responses
1Developmental Neuroendocrinology Laboratory Douglas Hospital Research Center Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology & Neurosurgery 6875 Boul LaSalle McGill University Montréal Canada H4H 1R3. cyd6@musica.mcgill.ca
Current Opinion in Neurobiology
|March 11, 1999
Abstract:
Studies dating from the 1950s have documented the impact of early life events on the development of behavioral and endocrine responses to stress. Recent findings suggest that these effects are mediated through changes in mother-offspring interactions and have identified central corticotropin-releasing factor systems as a critical target for the effects of variations in maternal care.