Social regulation of the cortisol levels in early human development.

By Megan R. Gunnar, B. Donzella. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2002

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Alerting, orienting, and executive attention: developmental properties and sociodemographic correlates in an epidemiological sample of young, urban children. (2004, background): “ Gunnar and Donzella (2002) have highlighted the role of caregiver responsiveness in establishing the early normative regulation of the HPA axis in infants.”
The development of coping. (2007, background): “…attachment relationship, these neurophysiological systems (especially the HPA axis) go into a period of hyporesponsivity by about 3 months of age (Gunnar & Donzella, 2002; Gunnar & Quevedo, 2007), resulting in a calmer and less stress reactive state for the infant after the first few months of…”
Father absence, parental care, and female reproductive development (2003, background): “Unresponsive parenting is positively associated with children’s stress (cortisol) (Gunnar, 2000; Gunnar & Donzella, 2002), and children of single mothers tend to have elevated cortisol levels (Flinn, Quinlan, Turner, Decker, & England, 1996).”
The Role of Early Life Stress as a Predictor for Alcohol and Drug Dependence (2010, background): “It appears that in humans, cortisol activity is particularly sensitive to the quality of nurturing during the first year of life and therefore it is likely that emotional neglect will have the largest impact at this time (Gunnar and Donzella 2002).”
Emotion and Emotion Regulation: Two Sides of the Developing Coin (2011, background): “Developmental studies with humans and animals indicate that these changes with age are affected by the responsiveness of caregivers and the quality of early experiences to calibrate enduring capacities for stress reactivity and self-regulation (Boyce & Ellis, 2005; Gunnar & Donzella, 2002).”
Maternal stress beginning in infancy may sensitize children to later stress exposure: effects on cortisol and behavior. (2002, background): “Previous studies have demonstrated positive associations between concurrent stress exposure and children’s cortisol levels (Gunnar and Donzella 2002; Lupien et al 2000, 2001; Schmidt et al 1997; Tout et al 1998).”
Transgenerational effects of posttraumatic stress disorder in babies of mothers exposed to the World Trade Center attacks during pregnancy. (2005, background): “testing, other potential hypothesized mechanisms, related to early social regulation (13), glucocorticoid programing in utero (6), and/or shared underlying genetic susceptibility (14) are more relevant to the cortisol alterations observed.”
Integrating the measurement of salivary α-amylase into studies of child health, development, and social relationships (2006, background): “…recent attention has focused on the activity of the limbic hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (LHPA) axis as indexed by individual differences and intra-individual change in salivary cortisol (Gunnar & Donzella, 2002; Kirschbaum, Read, & Hellhammer, 1992; Shirtcliff, Granger, Booth, & Johnson, 2005).”
The neurobiology of stress and development. (2007, background): “Furthermore, across the first year of life it becomes increasing difficult to provoke cortisol increases to many mild stressors (stranger approach, strange events, 3-to 30-minute separations , and inoculations; reviewed in Gunnar & Donzella 2002).”
THE PILOCARPINE MODEL OF TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY (2008, background): “In addition, there are concerns on the validity of modeling seizures in the first 2 weeks postpartum, as in this period the hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal axis is immature in rodents (Sapolsky and Meaney, 1986; Vazquez, 1998) but not in humans (Gunnar and Donzella, 2002).”
Research review: the neurobiology and genetics of maltreatment and adversity. (2010, background): “In other words, patterns of sensitive, responsive and attentive caregiving provide an external mechanism to regulate glucocorticoid and other stress responses (Gunnar & Donzella, 2002; Nachmias, Gunnar, Mangelsdorf, Parritz, & Buss, 1996).”
Early developmental emergence of human amygdala–prefrontal connectivity after maternal deprivation (2013, result): “However, it may be that comparison participants displayed expected decreases in diurnal cortisol, whereas cortisol in PI participants failed to attenuate during the experience in the scanning environment, as has been shown in prior work examining children in low-quality daycare (46).”