New research from the Stress and Development Lab suggests that the early social environment has a lasting impact on the development of stress response systems in children and that early intervention can mitigate the effects of early environments but only during the first two years of life.  The findings were published this week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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See our publication page for the full paper from PNAS.