Early deprivation disruption of associative learning: A developmental pathway to depression and social problems in adolescence.
Publication information:
Sheridan, M. A., McLaughlin, K. A., Winter, W., Fox, N., Zeanah, C., & Nelson, C. A. (2018). Early deprivation disruption of associative learning: A developmental pathway to depression and social problems in adolescence. Nature Communications, 9(1), 2216. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04381-8
Abstract
Early childhood deprivation such as institutionalization can greatly affect early development. Here, the authors study children who were raised in institutions but later randomly placed in foster care vs. not, to understand how early-life deprivation affects associative learning in adolescence.