Development of Threat Expression Following Infant Maltreatment: Infant and Adult Enhancement but Adolescent Attenuation

Development of Threat Expression Following Infant Maltreatment: Infant and Adult Enhancement but Adolescent Attenuation

Early life maltreatment by the caregiver constitutes a major risk factor for the development of later-life psychopathologies, including fear-related pathologies. Here, we used an animal model of early life maltreatment induced by the Scarcity-Adversity Model of low bedding (LB) where the mother is g...

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Main Authors: Anouchka Junod, Maya Opendak, Joseph E. LeDoux, Regina M. Sullivan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Subjects:
infant
trauma
maltreatment
learned fear
expression threat
amygdala
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00130/full

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