Childhood abuse predicts affective symptoms via HPA reactivity during mother-infant stress - Kern S, Laurent HK.

Despite extensive literature positing the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis as a mechanism in the association between early childhood maltreatment and later adult psychopathology, empirical support for this full pathway is lacking. We tested indire...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news