Adaptive and Maladaptive Aspects of Developmental Stress

• Making Sense of Stress: An Evolutionary-Developmental Framework.- Prenatal and maternal psychosocial stress in primates: adaptive plasticity or vulnerability to pathology?.- The Everyday Stress Resilience Hypothesis: Unfolding resilience from a perspective of everyday stress and coping.- Ontogeny of stress reactivity in the human child: Phenotypic flexibility, trade-offs, and pathology.- Consequences of Developmental Stress in Humans: Prenatal Stress.- Consequences of Developmental Stress in Humans: Adversity experienced during Childhood and Adolescence.- Behavioural and neuroendocrine consequences of prenatal stress in rat.- Developmental consequences of prenatal administration of glucocorticoids in rodents and primates.- Early developmental trajectories of brain development: New directions in the search for early determinants of health and longevity.- Adaptive regulations in developing rodents following neonatal challenges.- Adaptive and maladaptive regulations in response to environmental stress in adolescent rodents.- Oxidative stress and hormetic responses in the early life of birds.

From the reviews: "This book explores the positive and negative effects of stress, using a developmental perspective from prenatal experiences through adolescence. It also examines animal models to see how rodents, primates, and birds adapt to stress early in development. ... Both clinicians and researchers would benefit from this book. ... This book is well written by an international collection of experts in the field and is full of research findings. Readers with a solid background in physiological psychology and ethology will find this book very interesting." (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody's Book Reviews, July, 2013)