Neuroscience, molecular biology, and the childhood roots of health disparities: building a new framework for health promotion and disease prevention.

By J. Shonkoff, W. Boyce, Bruce S. McEwen. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2009

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Subfields: Education, General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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Mindfulness‐based interventions for improving cognition, academic achievement, behavior, and socioemotional functioning of primary and secondary school students (2017, background): “…as with emotion regulation, behavioral functioning, and brain and cognitive development, which are also strongly linked to academic performance (Andersen, 2003; Andersen & Teicher, 2009; Sandler et al., 2000; Shonkoff et al., 2009; Suldo et al., 2009; Teicher et al., 2002; Wolchik et al., 2006).”
Socioeconomic status and the brain: mechanistic insights from human and animal research (2010, background): “Such a mechanistic understanding will enable the design of more specific and powerful interventions to prevent and remediate the effects of low childhood SE”
Early Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and the Role of the Pediatrician: Translating Developmental Science Into Lifelong Health (2012, positive): “on parents, foster parents, child care providers, and preschool teachers to increase awareness of the adverse consequences of toxic stress in early childhood for lifelong outcomes in learning, behavior, and health; (2) calls for investments in the development of creative, new strategies that can be ”
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The Long-Term Health Consequences of Child Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Neglect: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2012, background): “These early life experiences can affect adult mental and physical health either by cumulative damage over time or by the biological embedding of adversities during sensitive developmental periods [48].”
Early-Life Adversity and Physical and Emotional Health across the Lifespan: A Neuro-Immune Network Hypothesis (2015, background): “Over the past 10 years, studies have revealed that childhood adversity is associated with subtle differences in multiple aspects of neural, cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and immune functioning (1,3,4).”