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Childhood adversity and neural development: Deprivation and threat as distinct dimensions of early experience
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A growing body of research has examined the impact of childhood adversity on neural structure and function. Advances in our understanding of the neurodevelopmental consequences of adverse early environments require the identification of dimensions of environmental experience that influence neural development differently and mechanisms other than the frequently-invoked stress pathways. We propose a novel conceptual framework that differentiates between deprivation (absence of expected environmental inputs and complexity) and threat (presence of experiences that represent a threat to one’s physical integrity) and make predictions grounded in basic neuroscience principles about their distinct effects on neural development. We review animal research on fear learning and sensory deprivation as well as human research on childhood adversity and neural development to support these predictions. We argue that these previously undifferentiated dimensions of experience exert strong and distinct influences on neural development that cannot be fully explained by prevailing models focusing only on stress pathways. Our aim is not to exhaustively review existing evidence on childhood adversity and neural development, but to provide a novel framework to guide future research.
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“The exposures that give rise to experiences of deprivation and threat co-occur at high rates in children and adolescents”
§ Childhood Adversity and Neural Development: Deprivation and Threat as Distinct Dimensions of Early Experience > Recommendations for Future Research
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The Methods (Childhood Adversities) include neglect and economic adversity alongside violence and abuse among exposures before age 18. The Results (The prevalence and co-occurrence of childhood adversities) report that multiple adversities were the norm for respondents reporting any one of them, supporting the claim of high co-occurrence. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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The Methods (Measures; page unavailable) include neglect and economic adversity alongside abuse and family violence among the adversities studied. The Results (Prevalence and co-occurrence of childhood adversities; page unavailable) report that the vast majority of exposed adolescents experienced multiple adversities. The paper does not use the labels “deprivation” and “threat,” but its findings support the broad co-occurrence claim. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“it is also possible—and we argue, likely—that alternative mechanisms explain these effects of childhood adversity on neural development.”
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“Threat is a primary dimension of experience for children exposed to physical and sexual abuse, domestic violence, and other types of interpersonal violence (Figure 1).”
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“children exposed to institutional rearing exhibit widespread cortical thinning in the superior and inferior parietal cortex (McLaughlin et al., 2013)”
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“activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis results in the release of glucocorticoids, which can lead to structural and functional changes in brain regions with high concentrations of glucocorticoid receptors, including the hippocampus, amygdala, and prefrontal cortex (PFC) (McEwen, 2012).”
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“Extensive evidence suggests that early exposure to adverse environments can disrupt the development and functioning of the HPA axis (Gunnar and Quevedo, 2007)”
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“The dimension of deprivation is central for children exposed to institutionalization, neglect, and poverty (Figure 1).”
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“Current conceptualization of the impact of childhood adversity on neural development has focused almost exclusively on stress pathways and allostatic load (Burghy et al., 2012; Cohen et al., 2013).”
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“Individuals who have been exposed to adverse childhood experiences are at elevated risk of developing a wide range of mental disorders, including mood, anxiety, behavior, and substance use disorders.”
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“The fundamental lesson from this research has been that as childhood adversities increase, the likelihood of psychopathology increases.”
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“Evidence from population-based epidemiological studies indicates that childhood adversity is common and associated strongly with the subsequent onset of psychopathology not only in childhood, but also in adolescence and adulthood (Cohen et al., 2001; Green et al., 2010; Kessler et al., 1997; McLaughlin et al., 2012).”
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- Supportedcites Green et al., 2010 source
The Results section reports that 53.4% of NCS-R respondents experienced at least one childhood adversity. Its life-course analysis examines disorder onset in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood and finds that significant associations for some adversities persist throughout those stages. The Conclusions describe the associations with disorder onset throughout the life course as powerful, while noting possible recall bias. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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The Abstract’s Conclusions state that childhood adversities are common and strongly associated with the onset of mental disorders among US adolescents. The introduction also reports strong associations with adult mental disorders, but the paper does not separately establish the claimed association with onset during childhood. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“children exposed to neglect and poverty often have deficits in language abilities (Farah et al., 2006; Hildyard and Wolfe, 2002) and accompanying differences in neural function supporting language function (Raizada, Richards, Meltzoff, & Kuhl, 2008).”
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“we do not propose that exposure to deprivation and threat experiences occurs independently for children, as most of the exposures described above co-occur. Instead we propose that they can be measured separately and have unique effects on neurodevelopment.”
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“We suggest that these dimensions of experience can be assessed across different forms of childhood adversity (e.g., physical and sexual abuse, domestic violence, institutionalization, neglect) and will differentially predict aspects of neurodevelopment and ultimately behavior.”
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“different types of adverse experiences frequently co-occur, meaning that most individuals exposed to childhood adversity have experienced multiple adverse experiences (Dong et al., 2004; Finkelhor et al., 2007; Green et al., 2010; McLaughlin et al., 2012).”
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“it is important to acknowledge that the effects of stress are not fully mediated by cortisol (the most common marker of HPA axis activation in human research) and that cortisol actions on their own do not explain how stress affects gene expression or neuronal plasticity (Gray et al., 2013).”
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“exposure to childhood adversity has been shown to explain more than 30% of mental disorders in the U.S. population (Green et al., 2010; McLaughlin et al., 2012)”
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“We argue that these previously undifferentiated dimensions of experience exert strong and distinct influences on neural development that cannot be fully explained by prevailing models focusing only on stress pathways.”
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“we propose that these are two dimensions of experience that have not previously been clearly differentiated or explained by prevailing models focused on stress pathways and argue that these dimensions of experience exert strong and distinct influences on neural development.”
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“Focusing only on this mechanism is problematic as adversity sometimes appears to have a remarkably broad impact on neurodevelopment.”
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“We suggest that early threat exposure leads to novel learning, resulting in the pairing of threat cues with previous neutral stimuli, a reduced threshold for experiencing fear, and heightened vigilance to detect other potential threats”
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- Not checked yetcites van Marle et al., 2009 source
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“The vmPFC is activated during retrieval of extinction learning and down-regulates the amygdala”
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“learned fear continues to be represented in the amygdala and hippocampus, and previously extinguished fear can be re-activated following exposure to situations where fear learning initially occurred or to other threatening contexts”
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“First, we predict that early threat exposure leads to changes in hippocampal morphology and function, including reduced dendritic spines and arborization and poor function in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory tasks.”
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“Behaviorally, this results in heightened attention to threat-related cues, generalization of learned fear to previously neutral stimuli, and elevated emotional responses to a wide range of emotional cues.”
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“extinguished fear can be re-activated through a variety of processes, including spontaneous recovery, exposure to novel threats, exposure to the CS in novel contexts, or re-exposure to the US”
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“We expect that reductions in cortical thickness should be most pronounced in regions of association cortex that are recruited for processing complex social and cognitive inputs, including prefrontal cortex (PFC), superior and inferior parietal cortex, and superior temporal cortex.”
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“Fear is a defensive mechanism that activates behavioral and neurobiological responses to danger that promote survival, including freezing and activation of sympathetic nervous system and HPA axis”
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- Not checked yetcites LeDoux, 2003 source
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“When neglect is directly compared to abuse, children exposed to neglect are at greater risk for cognitive deficits than children exposed to abuse (Hildyard & Wolfe, 2002) and these deficits are similar to those observed in severe poverty and institutionalization (Dubowitz et al., 2002; Spratt et al., 2012), consistent with our conceptualization of neglect as a form of deprivation.”
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“The vmPFC is thus essential for retention of extinction learning and inhibition of fear”
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“Together, these changes result in elevated amygdala activation to emotional stimuli due to the increased salience of such information, and potentially as a result of up-regulation of CRH receptors in the amygdala”
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“low SES is associated with decreased performance on complex cognitive tasks, including those tapping executive function and long-term memory (Evans and Schamberg, 2009; Farah et al., 2006; Hackman et al., 2010; Kishiyama et al., 2009; Noble et al., 2007), language ability (Fernald et al., 2013; Weisleder and Fernald, 2013), and overall cognitive and academic achievement (Brooks-Gunn and Duncan, 1”
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“An extensive literature in rodents has characterized the neural circuitry that underlies fear learning using Pavlovian fear conditioning tasks”
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“potential threats activate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, leading to enhanced expression of corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) in the hippocampus and damage to hippocampal neurons (Brunson et al., 2001; Ivy et al., 2010).”
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“early threat exposure has consistently been associated with reduced hippocampal volume in adults (Andersen and Teicher, 2008; Hart and Rubia, 2012; Teicher et al., 2012), studies of children have generally not found a relationship between threat exposure and hippocampal volume”
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“Taken together, the rodent literature suggests that early exposure to uncontrollable threat results in long-term changes in hippocampal and amygdala structure and function as well as deficits in inhibitory control of these regions by the mPFC.”
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“These environments share the characteristic of being significant threats to survival and therefore activate the neural circuitry underlying fear learning.”
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“Extinction of conditioned fear initially requires the amygdala, whereas retrieval of extinction memory on subsequent days additionally requires the vmPFC”
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Childhood adversity causally affects neural development and psychopathology, rather than being only correlated with them.
“the pathways through which childhood adversity impacts neural development and, ultimately, psychopathology.”
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“However, neglect, which is particularly prevalent in those with a history of institutional care, has been linked to distinct stress physiology, including dysregulation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis (Humphreys et al., 2015; McLaughlin et al., 2014), especially in ways that could affect metabolic regulation.”
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“Deprivation is the core feature of neglect that distinguishes it from other forms of adversity, such as trauma and abuse, where the most prominent feature is harm or threat of harm to the child.”
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“Although experiences of deprivation often co-occur with experiences of threat (i.e., abuse), the developmental consequences of deprivation and threat are at least partially distinct.(7–9)”
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“evidence is accumulating that ELA influences mental health by altering the developing brain in ways that contribute to the onset of psychopathology,1,17,18”
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“Evidence is accumulating that different types of adversities have at least partially distinct associations with brain development. Threat and deprivation are two dimensions of ELA that provide a framework for conceptualizing the neural impact of these experiences.17,18”
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“Threat and deprivation are two dimensions of ELA that provide a framework for conceptualizing the neural impact of these experiences.17,18”
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Metadata
- Authors
- McLaughlin, K. A., Sheridan, M. A., & Lambert, H. K.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Corresponding author
- McLaughlin, Katie A.
- Venue
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-11
- Volume
- 47
- Pages
- 578-591
- ISSN
- 0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4308474
- OpenAlex
- W2015671245
- Semantic Scholar
- 69b7150efee4a482268406c084c223669bbe9868
- Cited by
- 1,389
- References
- 218
- Citations by year
- 2026: 247 · 2025: 184 · 2024: 175 · 2023: 177 · 2022: 157 · 2021: 126 · 2020: 118 · 2019: 67 · 2018: 56 · 2017: 39 · 2016: 27 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 3.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Mental Health (K01-MH092625, K01-MH092555)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- childhood adversity, neural development, deprivation, threats, early life experience, sensory deprivation, fear learning, stress response pathways, neurodevelopmental outcomes, conceptual framework
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Fear, Humans, Life Change Events, Maternal Deprivation, Sensory Deprivation, Stress, Psychological, Models, Animal, Neurogenesis
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