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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Early life experience"”.
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Plasticity as an adaptive mechanism to environmental change in wild house mice
… how developmental environments affect later-life performance; and the silver spoon hypothesis, which suggests that favourable early-life experience provides long-lasting benefits in behaviour, physiology and life-history.
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Social correlates of reminiscence in late life
… both oral and silent reminiscence frequency; early life experience with reminiscing was significantly associated with total (oral plus silent) reminiscence frequency (p<.05, one-tailed). Perceived enjoyment, appropriateness, and usefulness of reminiscing were also measured. Silent reminiscence …
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Contributions of early life adversity, sex, and traits towards compulsive opioid self-administration
… evidence suggests that individual differences in early life experience, biological sex, personality traits, and neurobiology of the reward system are all associated with the development of addiction. A dimensional model of how all these factors relate to addiction is necessary, but simultaneously …
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Youths of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: A Study on Early Life Sent-down Experience and Later Life Health
… inequalities has increasingly recognised that experiences in early life may have consequences for health problems in later life that unfold across the life course. Despite the accumulating evidence in the life course study on the early origins of adult health, the nature and strength of …
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Where is the love? A psychoanalytic history of the Cotswold community
… community for adolescent boys who had experienced trauma and disrupted attachments. The research is a case study of a single institution, using archival research and some elements of autoethnography. The thesis examines themes of deprivation and delinquency, therapeutic love and hate, …
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Neuroimmune and Developmental Mechanisms Regulating Motivational Behaviors for Opioids
… the reinforcing properties of abused substances. Early-life environmental conditions are frequently implicated as critical mediators for later-life health outcomes, although the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie these effects have historically been challenging to identify. Previous …
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Chimpanzee Early Life Experiences and Responses to Caregiver Use of Species-Specific Behavior
… in adult primate behavior can be influenced by early life experiences, such as rearing history and prevalence of human and conspecific interaction partners. The current study aimed to expand on previous research comparing chimpanzee responses between a CB and HB condition and to determine the …
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Emotional intelligence and sociotropy-autonomy in young women with DSM-IV-TR hypochondriasis: a mixed-method study
… themes emerged from the qualitative data: 1) Early life experience; 2) Inward focus; 3) Learned helplessness; and 4) Experience of psychological therapy. Eight subordinate themes were identified: (i) Unmet emotional needs; (ii) Emotional isolation; (iii) There is something wrong with me; (iv) …
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The race to the top: the experiences and strategies of women of colour in UK academia
… It investigates the extent to which racialised experience and White privilege, and early life experience impact women of colour’s career progression, and investigates the strategies deployed by those women to succeed in UK universities despite these multi-layered challenges. The study …
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Flying' Female Sex Workers in Kolkata, India: Using "Cultural Biography" to Understand HIV Risk Perceptions
… little empirical data exists about the ways of life, socio-cultural contexts, sexual practices and risk perceptions of these women, and particularly those in non-brothel based or flying sex work in India. In addition, the differential risk of HIV incidence among different types of sex workers …