Animal Models of Early Life Stress: Implications for Understanding Resilience

Overview

Journal Dev Psychobiol

Specialties Pediatrics
Psychiatry
Psychology

Date 2010 Oct 20

PMID 20957724

Citations 51

Authors

David M Lyons

Karen J Parker

Alan F Schatzberg

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Abstract

In the mid-1950s, Levine and his colleagues reported that brief intermittent exposure to early life stress diminished indications of subsequent emotionality in rats. Here we review ongoing studies of a similar process in squirrel monkeys. Results from these animal models suggest that brief intermittent exposure to stress promotes the development of arousal regulation and resilience. Implications for programs designed to enhance resilience in human development are discussed.

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