PSYC 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Uterus, Longitudinal Study, Personality Disorder
25 Oct 2016
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How early stress could affect child"s development: role of neurobiological mechanisms. Accuracy of the statistic/validity of the study heavily relies on the memory of subject. Events natural experiments longitudinal study cohort follows subjects giving more control over causality. 32 weeks at birth children whose mothers were depressed early in their life had a higher reaction to saddness types of in utero adversity; prematurity, lower birth rate, mother smoked during pregnancy, maternal psychiatry problems. Early in uteri adversity affect mental health early adversity affect brain development longitudinal studies are preformed use of twins to control for genetic studies what are the underlying biological mechanisms that affect us later in life. Serotonin, there are lots of changes early in life, one of the earlies neurotransmitters in early pregnancy and matures quickly, plays a major role in brain development, do early factors affect the serotonin system.
