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A researcher puts stickers on a lazy Susan under some
\nplastic cups, then offers a whirl. A preschooler must find hidden stickers when
\nthe spinning ends. Some kids remember where the stickers are, but some have to
\nsearch each cup.<\/p>\n

The game measures working memory<\/a>, one of the group of
\nbehavioral abilities known as executive control that can be compromised in
\nearly-life trauma-facing adolescents.<\/p>\n

Adversity wreaks havoc, and from there you have a mechanism
\nthat reacts differently, says Megan Gunnar, a developmental psychobiologist at
\nMinnesota University in Minneapolis who spent two decades researching the
\neffects of early-life adversity in adopted kids. This work focuses on acute
\nhardship, such as being orphaned, rather than regular struggles, which may
\nteach valuable resilience.<\/p>\n

An infancy marked by deprivation, neglect or violence may
\nalso change the neuroendocrine system governing how the body reacts to stress.
\nStress response issues will put children on a road to developmental challenges
\nalong with increased risk of adhd, diabetes, and a host of other health
\nconcerns.<\/p>\n

Yet new reports indicate that a daunting future might not be
\nnecessary. As Gunnar and others have demonstrated, disrupted stress responses
\ncan revert to normal during puberty, making it easier to remove imbalances
\nproduced by early trauma. Research is encouraging a new understanding of
\npuberty as an opportunity \u2014 a chance for adults with a weak beginning to change
\ntheir physiological responses to stress.<\/p>\n

A sense of safety<\/h2>\n

When the brain perceives a threat \u2014 even a fleeting one,
\nsuch as a painful test or a high-stakes competition \u2014 levels of hormone
\nadrenaline shot up , causing the “fight-or – flight” reflex. Breathing
\nand pace ascend. Palms hot. See and sharpen senses. The brain sends chemical
\nmessengers to activate adrenal glands near the kidneys to release cortisol.<\/p>\n

Cortisol transfers sugars to blood for quick energy. In a
\nfight-or – flight case, the hormone often delays metabolism, immune responses,
\ndevelopment and other functions considered non-essential.<\/p>\n

The fight-or – flight response stops when the danger
\ndisappears, at least in a person whose stress response functions as it should.
\nLevels of adrenaline and cortisol drops, pulse rate slows, and other processes
\ncontinue business as normal.<\/p>\n

When Gunnar began her doctoral study in the 1970s ,
\nresearchers already figured out main players in the stress response. Involved
\nneuroendocrine impulses form the HPA axis, short for
\nhypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal. When rodents and monkeys face early difficulty,
\nthe HPA axis is knocked off-kilter. When techniques were possible to quantify
\ncortisol from saliva samples \u2014 rather than extracting blood or urine \u2014 Gunnar
\nset out to research how the HPA axis affects human brain and conduct.<\/p>\n

From mid-1980s studies with newborn babies, Gunnar found
\nthat having a stable parent relationship is crucial for a healthy
\nneuroendocrine system and helps babies cope with challenging conditions such as
\ngetting immunizations. You can go to the hospital as a infant and have a huge
\nshot in one leg and the other leg, and you’re tearing off your back … but it
\ndoesn’t take off, says Gunnar. But if babies are separated from their parents
\nfor even a few minutes, their HPA axis rockets up like a missile.<\/p>\n

Gunnar wonders what happens if the long-term feeling of
\nprotection is broken. She attempted to research neglected and deprived
\nchildren, but distinguishing the consequences of early deprivation from later
\nproblems is not straightforward. “The way you start life seems to
\ncontinue,” says Gunnar. A US-published paper last November. Centers on
\nDisease Control and Prevention refers to the long-term effects of smoking,
\ndrinking excessively, dropping out of high school and having heart disease and a
\nhost of other health problems relative to their peers.<\/p>\n

A mid-1990s trip put Gunnar on a new direction to address
\nthe troublesome study issue. She went to an orphanage in eastern Romania with a
\nstudy team, where children were living in overcrowded, barbaric circumstances.
\nYou step into these wards, and immediately you’re mobbed by kids shouting ‘Mom,
\nMom, Mom’ … stretching their arms to get hold, says Gunnar, who at the time
\nhad two school-age sons. It was bad. I just tried to get them home.<\/p>\n

What she carried back to Minnesota was a series of small
\nvials, each holding a saliva sample from a 2- or 3-year-old orphan. To her
\ndismay, cortisol levels in kids \u2014 the end result of the neuroendocrine cascade
\n\u2014 were smaller than the normal people. The study provided a window on long-term
\nparental neglect effects on stress responses.<\/p>\n

Adoptee struggles<\/h2>\n

To recognise the impact of early adversity, Gunnar wanted
\nkids who began out in misery but migrated to stable, nurturing environments
\nafter infancy. Such kids will be the perfect model for all early adversity
\nanimal experiments, she thought. It dawned that this community exists: orphans
\nadopted.<\/p>\n

Gunnar shared her proposal with employees of the Minnesota
\nHuman Services Department’s adoption team. With support and funds from the
\nagency, she surveyed Minnesota parents who had adopted children abroad in the
\n1990s, encouraging families to enter a university registry and engage in
\nresearch.<\/p>\n

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Many research parents had found early that their adoptive
\nchildren had behavioural issues. And when the kids came to the university lab
\nfor problem-solving and sorting exercises, including the lazy Susan challenge
\nand the successful marshmallow test of delayed gratification, the kids
\nstruggled with treatment and self-regulation.<\/p>\n

Like Romanian orphans, these kids had lower amounts of
\ncortisol than children who had no behavioural issues. Gunnar speculates that in
\nthe face of prolonged suffering, which has the potential to promote excessively
\nhigh levels of cortisol, a poor stress response \u2014 that is, generating less
\ncortisol \u2014 could be the way nature protects the brain and body.<\/p>\n

Teen-time shift<\/h2>\n

Adopted children who grew up with early-life abuse (gray
\ncurve) before puberty had blunted stress responses compared to children with
\nbirth parents (blue curve). Before, after and after a challenging mission, the
\nadopted kids showed regular cortisol levels. Saliva was extracted 20 minutes
\nbefore the mission, 5, 20, 40, 60 and 80 minutes after the assignment.
\nResearchers translated data to a logarithmic scale, displaying negative
\nfigures. Cortisol amounts range between 0 and 1 microgram per deciliter.<\/p>\n

Studying adoptees over time, she noticed that
\ncare-probleming preschoolers with low cortisol often reached kindergarten. A
\nblunted stress response continued in middle childhood, even after an average
\nseven or eight years in a safe care home.<\/p>\n

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That was disheartening, says Russell Romeo, Barnard College
\npsychobiologist in New York City. We ‘d always figured they would start
\nrecalibrating their stress reactivity once they get out of stressful
\ncircumstances.<\/p>\n

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But Romeo ‘s study in the mid-2000s gave Gunnar cause to believe
\nshe wanted to look deeper into the direction of children’s lives.<\/p>\n

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High time for change<\/h2>\n

Romeo examined rats to see how depression influences teenage
\nand adult brains differently. In one series of tests, he exposed adult rats and
\nprepubescent rats to acute stress \u2014 30 minutes stuck inside a wire mesh jar \u2014
\nand reported their corticosterone levels (cortisol rat version) before, during
\nand after confinement. Both groups developed similar hormone spikes when
\nstressed, but levels in juvenile rats took much longer to normalize.<\/p>\n

When Romeo studied how animals responded to long stress
\nperiods\u201430 minutes of seven-day restriction per day \u2014 the behavior was
\ndifferent. Since freeing the animals from the chains, tension hormones spiked
\nhigher in young rats than in adults. Yet rats near puberty returned to baseline
\nquicker than older males. Taken together, research by Romeo proposed
\nneuroendocrine stress responses were formed during adolescence to appear
\ndifferently in adulthood.<\/p>\n

In earlier studies , researchers at McGill University in
\nMontreal found that transferring teenage rats to enriched environments \u2014 larger
\ncages with more toys and cagemates \u2014 could reset stress mechanisms that
\nearly-life deprivation had thrown out of whack.<\/p>\n

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Ses results inspired Gunnar. Maybe I’d look into puberty,
\nshe figured. It may be recalibrating time.<\/p>\n

Closer to normal<\/h2>\n

During traumatic behavior (such as speaking), saliva
\ncortisol levels increased briefly and returned to usual among those children
\nwho stayed with their biological parents. Children adopted from childhood in an
\norphanage (an early-life trauma) had blunted cortisol responses at stages 1 to
\n2 of puberty. Yet at the rear end of puberty, stages 4 and 5, accepted
\nstandardized infant stress responses.<\/p>\n

Thus, her team welcomed 280 7- to 14-year-olds\u2014122
\nyoungsters adopted from organizations and 158 from social comparable maternal
\nfamilies \u2014 to the laboratory to perform two challenging tasks. One was
\ndemanding theoretical arithmetic. For the second assignment, each pupil
\npracticed a five-minute speech announcing a new student class. Children were
\ntold their voice, presented in front of a video camera and mirror, would be
\njudged. Some kids talked enthusiastically, others seemed anxious. We had one
\nbreak into laughter, Gunnar says. So we’re not torturing them. If we find they
\n‘re too anxious, we ‘re making them leave.<\/p>\n

Before and during each child’s speech and math activities,
\nresearchers gathered saliva samples to test cortisol levels. The pubertal
\nstatus of the participants was measured on a 1-to-5 scale: stage 1 meant no
\nvisible body modifications and stage 5 meant full sexual maturation.<\/p>\n

Both early puberty kids (stages 1\u20132), adoptive kids had
\nblunted cortisol levels before and after the activities similar to kids living
\nwith their biological parents. This finding validated Gunnar ‘s previous
\npre-school-age foreign adoption study. Cortisol trends in late puberty group
\n(stages 4\u20135) appeared identical for adopted and unadopted adolescents.<\/p>\n

In order to confirm HPA recalibration, instead of simply
\ncontrasting across age groups, Gunnar and colleagues took participants for the
\nsame assessments one and two years later, for a total of three annual sessions.<\/p>\n

Matthew Duggan, a Long Beach, California psychiatrist
\nworking in childhood and puberty, is inspired by results and feels they could
\nrelate to a wide variety of children who have difficulty controlling their
\nfeelings and communicating with others when parents neglected or overlooked
\nthem early in life. There may be a chance … where things may change, Duggan
\nsays. And we have some evidence to show that this is a probability at biological
\nstage. That’s very optimistic for me.<\/p>\n

Duggan suggests Gunnar ‘s study would have been even more
\nbeneficial if it had measured the change in behavior of participants \u2014 for
\nexample, by questioning parents , teachers, or teenagers themselves.<\/p>\n

How can puberty combine better treatment and help to reshape
\nneuroendocrine stress responses? Romeo speculates that stems from the fact that
\nthe hypothalamus and other brain areas, such as the prefrontal cortex, that
\nregulate our stress reactions are among the regions that rewire and establish
\nassociations throughout adolescence.<\/p>\n

It’s impossible to tell whether these changes in the stress
\nresponse will actually benefit a young person, Gunnar says. Mental wellbeing
\nand endurance arise from an ever-changing mix of genes and social experiences \u2014
\nsome of which early bring the body awry. But puberty may probably remove any
\nharm, her research reveals. Gunnar and others intend to discover more of the
\nfundamental reboot biology.<\/p>\n

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