Friday, December 14, 2018

Strong Parent-Child Bond Can Reduce Effects of Long-Term Childhood Stress

A new brain imaging study suggests that a strong parental bond can override some of the negative effects of a stressful childhood — such as living in poverty or experiencing violence — by changing how kids perceive the environmental cues that help them distinguish between what’s safe or dangerous.

To investigate the impact of the caregiver relationship, a research team from Emory School of Medicine in Georgia used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to observe activity in the...


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