Journal
SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 5, Pages 489-499Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2015.1087424
Keywords
Amygdala; Child development; Sensitive periods; Parents; Emotion
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- NIMH [R01MH091864]
- NSF [BCS-1439258]
- Dana Foundation
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Strong evidence indicates that reciprocal connections between the amygdala and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) support fundamental aspects of emotional behavior in adulthood. However, this circuitry is slow to develop in humans, exhibiting immaturity in childhood. The argument is made that the development of this circuitry in humans is intimately associated with caregiving, such that parental availability during childhood provides important and enduring scaffolding of neuroaffective processes that ultimately form of the nature of the adult phenotype.
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