Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging

Chronic Early Stress Impairs Default Mode Network Connectivity in Preadolescents and Their Mothers.

Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging January 2019 Maor Zeev-Wolf, Jonathan Levy, Abraham Goldstein et al.

Early life stress (ELS) bears long-term negative consequences throughout life. Yet ELS effect is mostly unknown, and no study has followed children to test its impact on the default mode network (DMN) in relation to maternal behavior across childhood. Focusing on brain oscillations, we utilized a unique cohort of war-exposed preadolescent children (11-13 years of age) and their mothers followed...