Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Early deprivation disruption of associative learning is a developmental pathway to depression and social problems

  • Margaret A. Sheridan,
  • Katie A. McLaughlin,
  • Warren Winter,
  • Nathan Fox,
  • Charles Zeanah,
  • Charles A. Nelson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04381-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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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.