Early-Life Adversity and Physical and Emotional Health across the Lifespan: A Neuro-Immune Network Hypothesis

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Summary

It is argued that early-life adversity amplifies crosstalk between peripheral inflammation and neural circuitries subserving threat-, reward-, and executive control-related processes, which results in chronic low-grade inflammation, thereby contributing to adiposity, insulin resistance, and other predisease states.

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review
Published
2015-06-04
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Keywords

Stressor, Psychology, Vulnerability (computing), Mental health, Developmental psychology

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