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Variations in maternal care in infancy regulate the development of stress reactivity.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Dec 2000
Caldji C, Diorio J, Meaney M J
Abstract excerpt
Naturally occurring variations in maternal care in early postnatal life are associated with the development of individual differences in behavioral and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to stress in the rat. These effects appear to be mediated by the influence of maternal licking/grooming on the development of central systems that serve to activate (corticotropin-releasing factor) or inhibit...
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