Developmental Psychobiology,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
66(2)
Published: Jan. 28, 2024
Abstract
Maternal
exposure
to
childhood
adversity
is
associated
with
detrimental
health
outcomes
throughout
the
life
span
and
may
have
implications
for
offspring.
Evidence
links
maternal
adverse
experiences
(ACEs)
birth
outcomes,
yet
impact
on
infant's
epigenome
unclear.
Moreover,
sleep
habits
during
pregnancy
influence
this
association.
Here,
we
explore
whether
restless
moderates
association
between
infant
epigenetic
age
acceleration
in
332
mother–infant
dyads
(56%
female;
39%
Black;
25%
Hispanic).
During
second
trimester,
mothers
self‐reported
past‐week
sleep;
DNA
methylation
from
umbilical
vein
endothelial
cells
was
used
estimate
five
clocks.
Multivariable
linear
regression
test
study
hypotheses.
Despite
no
evidence
of
main
effects,
there
an
interaction
ACEs
predicting
using
EPIC
gestational
clock.
Only
infants
whose
reported
both
demonstrated
accelerated
aging.
Results
provide
preliminary
that
epigenome.
Health Psychology Review,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
17(1), P. 5 - 59
Published: Jan. 2, 2023
Classic
theories
of
stress
and
health
are
largely
based
on
assumptions
regarding
how
different
psychosocial
stressors
influence
biological
processes
that,
in
turn,
affect
human
behavior.
Although
theoretically
rich,
this
work
has
yielded
little
consensus
led
to
numerous
conceptual,
measurement,
reproducibility
issues.
Social
Safety
Theory
aims
address
these
issues
by
using
the
primary
goal
regulatory
logic
brain
immune
system
as
basis
for
specifying
social-environmental
situations
which
systems
should
respond
most
strongly
maximize
reproductive
success
survival.
This
analysis
gave
rise
integrated,
multi-level
formulation
described
herein,
transforms
thinking
about
biology
provides
a
biologically
based,
evolutionary
account
why
experiences
social
safety
threat
related
health,
well-being,
aging,
longevity.
In
doing
so,
theory
advances
testable
framework
investigating
biopsychosocial
roots
disparities
well
health-relevant
crystalize
over
time
perceptions
environment
interact
with
childhood
microbial
environment,
birth
cohort,
culture,
air
pollution,
genetics,
sleep,
diet,
personality,
self-harm
health.
The
also
highlights
several
interventions
reducing
promoting
resilience.
Psychoneuroendocrinology,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
153, P. 106115 - 106115
Published: April 18, 2023
Stress
before
conception
and
during
pregnancy
is
associated
with
less
favorable
maternal
child
health.
Alterations
in
prenatal
cortisol
levels
may
serve
as
a
central
biological
pathway
linking
stress
to
adverse
Research
examining
associations
between
from
childhood
through
has
not
been
comprehensively
reviewed.
Child Development Perspectives,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
16(4), P. 200 - 207
Published: Sept. 8, 2022
Sleep
is
a
robust
predictor
of
child
and
adolescent
development.
Race/ethnicity,
socioeconomic
status
(SES),
related
experiences
(e.g.,
discrimination)
are
associated
with
sleep,
but
researchers
have
just
begun
to
understand
the
role
sleep
in
development
racial/ethnic
SES
disparities
broader
psychosocial
adjustment
cognitive
functioning
during
childhood
adolescence.
In
this
article,
we
discuss
poor
as
potential
mechanism
contributing
such
disparities,
better
protective
factor
that
diminishes
disparities.
We
conclude
by
offering
recommendations
for
research
advance
understanding
key
bioregulatory
system
may
underlie
or
protect
against
detrimental
developmental
outcomes
adversity
belonging
historically
minoritized
group.
Stress,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
27(1)
Published: May 6, 2024
Although
dysregulated
stress
biology
is
becoming
increasingly
recognized
as
a
key
driver
of
lifelong
disparities
in
chronic
disease,
we
presently
have
no
validated
biomarkers
toxic
physiology;
biological,
behavioral,
or
cognitive
treatments
specifically
focused
on
normalizing
processes;
and
agreed-upon
guidelines
for
treating
the
clinic
evaluating
efficacy
interventions
that
seek
to
reduce
improve
human
functioning.
We
address
these
critical
issues
by
(a)
systematically
describing
systems
mechanisms
are
stress;
(b)
summarizing
indicators,
biomarkers,
instruments
assessing
response
systems;
(c)
highlighting
therapeutic
approaches
can
be
used
normalize
stress-related
biopsychosocial
also
present
novel
multidisciplinary
Stress
Phenotyping
Framework
bring
researchers
clinicians
one
step
closer
realizing
goal
using
precision
medicine-based
prevent
treat
stress-associated
health
problems.
Journal of Affective Disorders,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
352, P. 479 - 489
Published: Feb. 9, 2024
Childhood
trauma
is
experienced
by
approximately
one
third
of
young
people
in
the
United
Kingdom
and
has
been
shown
to
confer
an
increased
risk
for
mental
health
difficulties
adulthood.
Understanding
associations
between
these
factors
before
negative
outcomes
manifest
adulthood
imperative
help
inform
development
interventions.
The
aims
this
study
were
two-fold;
first,
investigate
effects
childhood
on
daily
stress-related
vulnerability
over
a
period
7
days
test
whether
any
observed
relationships
moderated
protective
or
factors.
Second,
explore
indirect
reasons
living,
optimism,
suicide
ideation,
defeat
entrapment
through
212
participants
recruited
ecological
momentary
assessment
complete
three
diaries
per
day
7-day
period.
Participants
completed
measures
stress,
hassles,
executive
functioning,
impulsivity,
sleep
quality
(stress-related
factors)
as
well
thoughts
suicide,
entrapment.
Trauma
Questionnaire
was
also
at
baseline.
Analyses
found
that
significantly
associated
with
higher
scores
positively
related
each
indicators
risk.
uncovered
key
pathways
whereby
had
stress.
function
self-reported
future
research
ought
replicate
current
findings
using
more
objective
methods.
from
highlight
complexity
its
damaging
impacts
poorer
outcomes.
Greater
understanding
which
may
impact
later
essential
Child Development,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
93(5)
Published: May 21, 2022
This
study
examined
bidirectional
associations
between
daily
happiness
and
negative
mood
subjective
objective
sleep
measures.
Participants
were
311
adolescents
(Mage
=
17.37
years;
51.8%
female;
59.2%
White/European
American,
38.6%
Black/African
1%
Hispanic/Latinx
1.4%
multi-racial;
19.3%
below
poverty
line)
observed
over
a
7-day
period
(2017-2018)
using
diaries
actigraphy.
Daily
was
related
to
greater
sleep/wake
problems,
lower
problems.
Conversely,
shorter
self-reported
duration
higher
the
next
day.
For
actigraphy
measures,
efficiency,
whereas
efficiency.
Differences
in
based
on
versus
measures
are
discussed.
Sleep Medicine,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
109, P. 40 - 49
Published: June 21, 2023
Socioeconomic
status
(SES)
and
neighborhood
context
are
influential
predictors
of
adolescent
sleep,
yet
little
is
known
about
how
they
may
interact
to
influence
sleep.
We
examined
multiple
dimensions
family
SES
as
moderators
associations
between
risk
sleep
parameters.
Participants
were
323
adolescents
(Mage
=
17.4
years,
SD
0.86;
48%
male;
60%
White/European
American,
40%
Black/African
American).
Sleep
was
assessed
using
7
nights
actigraphy
from
which
duration
(minutes
onset
wake
time),
efficiency,
long
episodes,
variability
in
minutes
over
the
week
derived.
Youth
reported
on
their
sleep/wake
problems
sleepiness,
well
perceptions
safety
violence
neighborhoods.
Parents
indices,
including
income-to-needs
ratio
perceived
financial
stability.
Lower
(income-to-needs,
stability)
associated
with
lower
efficiency
more
frequent
episodes.
greater
community
concerns
related
subjective
problems.
Moderation
effects
illustrated
two
general
patterns.
For
actigraphy-derived
variables,
poor
only
among
youth
lower-income
families.
daytime
difficulties
pronounced
for
higher
youth,
while
had
regardless
factors.
Findings
suggest
that
several
be
consequential
adolescents'
highlight
significance
considering
contextual
influences
towards
a
better
understanding