- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Miami University
2013-2024
In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that early life stress experiences persistently impact subsequent physiological, cognitive, and emotional responses. cases of trauma, these can result in anxiety disorders such as phobias posttraumatic disorder. the present paper, we examined effects infant footshock exposure at postnatal day (PND) 17 on contextual fear conditioning days 18 (Experiment 1), 24 2), or 90 3). each experiment, PND17 enhanced later conditioning, indicating...
Abstract Patients diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) present a spectrum of debilitating anxiety symptoms resulting from exposure to trauma. Women are twice as likely be and PTSD compared men; however, the reason for this vulnerability remains unknown. We conducted four experiments where we first demonstrated female stress‐enhanced fear learning (SEFL) moderate, acute early life (aELS) (4 footshocks in single session), more intense aELS (15 session) males females comparable...