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ArticleBiological psychiatry2019

Do Sensitive Periods Exist for Exposure to Adversity?

Laurel J Gabard-Durnam, Katie A McLaughlin

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Article in Biological psychiatry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  11. Research Review: Assessment of early-life adversity and trauma - cumulative risk and dimensional approaches.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025
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  15. Childhood Adversity Is Associated With Longitudinal White Matter Changes After Adulthood Trauma.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Laurel J Gabard-DurnamDivision of Developmental Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: laurel.gabard-durnam@childrens.harvard.edu.
Katie A McLaughlinDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Funding

Child Trauma and the Development of Neural Systems Underlying Emotion RegulationR01MH103291 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI MCLAUGHLIN, KATIE · 2014 to 2018
$3.8M
Deprivation and Threat: Dimensions of Early Experience and Neural DevelopmentR01MH106482 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI MCLAUGHLIN, KATIE · 2016 to 2020
$3.1M
Medical Research Council MC_UU_12013/2NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH103291NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH106482
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Child AbuseDNA MethylationChildHumansLongitudinal StudiesProspective Studies

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PMID31046937
PMCPMC6580180

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