Parameterizing toxic stress in early childhood: maternal depression, maltreatment, and HPA-axis variation in a pilot intervention study - Wagner RE, Jonson-Reid M, Drake B, Kohl PL, Pons L, Zhang Y, Fitzgerald RT, Laudenslager ML, Constantino JN.

Adverse experiences superseding a child's capacity to sustain regulation of emotion and adaptive function are theorized to constitute "toxic stressors"  when they induce a deleterious biological response within an individual. We ascertained presumptive par...
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