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The impact of maternal neglect on genetic hyperactivity

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On the early life origins of vulnerability to opioid addiction.

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Inter‐individual maternal care received and genotype interactions affect dopaminergic phenotypes in female rat offspring

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Do Adolescent Exposure to Cannabinoids and Early Adverse Experience Interact to Increase the Risk of Psychiatric Disorders: Evidence from Rodent Models

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Nesting Environment Provides Sex-Specific Neuroprotection in a Rat Model of Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury

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FAAH Inhibition Reverses Depressive-like Behavior and Sex-Specific Neuroinflammatory Alterations Induced by Early Life Stress

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Clinical translational neuroimaging of the antioxidant effect of N‐acetylcysteine on neural microstructure

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Developmental Brain Injury and Social Determinants of Health: Opportunities to Combine Preclinical Models for Mechanistic Insights into Recovery

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Revisiting the Biopsychosocial Formulation: Neuroscience, Social Science, and the Patient’s Subjective Experience

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An Open-Source and Highly Adaptable Rodent Limited Bedding and Nesting Apparatus for Chronic Early Life Stress

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Early life adversity impaired dorsal striatal synaptic transmission and behavioral adaptability to appropriate action selection in a sex-dependent manner

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Early life stress and the role of environmental and molecular moderators in the ontology of pathological and resilient behavioral phenotypes

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Effects of Neonatal Methamphetamine and Stress on Brain Monoamines and Corticosterone in Preweanling Rats

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Challenges to the parental brain: Neuroethological and translational considerations

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Early-Life Stress Paradigm Transiently Alters Maternal Behavior, Dam-Pup Interactions, and Offspring Vocalizations in Mice

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How Early Life Stress Impact Maternal Care: A Systematic Review of Rodent Studies

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