Jamie Hanson Profile picture
Psychology & Neuroscience Researcher at @PittTweet and @LRDC1 | Studying the Impact of Early Life #Adversity on 🧠 Development | #Stress | RT≠Endorsements
Nov 9, 2020 13 tweets 4 min read
New theoretical paper about the impact of Early Life #Adversity on the Amygdala “Amygdala Allostasis and Early Life Adversity: Considering Excitotoxicity and Inescapability in the Sequelae of Stress“ Quick 🧵 /1 psyarxiv.com/7gcuw The amygdala is a heterogeneous group of clustered sub-nuclei; it plays a critical role in the evaluation of the emotional significance of incoming stimuli; and environmental experience has the potential to influence it due to amygdala's postnatal developmental trajectories /2