The Developing Brain and Neural Plasticity: Implications for Normality, Psychopathology,and Resilience

Stress-induced neuroplasticity: (Mal)adaptation to adverse life events in patients with PTSD – A critical overview

“…neurogenesis, neuron migration) terminate once the adult brain has 'fully' developed and the brain stays in a fixed and stable state (Cicchetti and Curtis, 2006). Changes in the context of learning and memory were however nonetheless assumed.…”

Affective Facial Expression Processing in 15-Month-Old Infants Who Have Experienced Maltreatment

“…This investigation sought to determine whether a sample of 15 month old infants, who had experienced maltreatment during the first year of life, would manifest aberrations in neural processing of facial expressions of emotion. We have continued to focus our work on the early years of life because it is a period when critical aspects of neurodevelopment, driven in large part by experience in and transactions with the environment, are occurring (Cicchetti & Curtis, 2006; Huttenlocher, 2002; Stiles, 2008). Moreover, increasingly complex abilities to recognize and understand facial expressions of emotion continue to emerge throughout infancy and early childhood (e.g., Mondlach, Geldart, Maurer, & Le Grand, 2003), and brain areas relevant for facial emotion processing, such as the prefrontal cortex and amygdala, continue to develop through childhood and adolescence (e.g., Giedd et al, 1996).…”

Paradigm clash in the field of eating disorders: a critical examination of the biopsychiatric model from a sociocultural perspective

“…media, the social context of schools) affect brain development and function (see, e.g. Cichetti & Curtis, 2006). Even if individual differences in neurochemistry-withinneural-circuitry constitute a proximal causal factor, they could be attributable to traumatic experiences, unusually intense, sustained, and pervasive exposure to sociocultural messages, or behaviours such as dieting that are rooted in those messages.…”