Baker Hall Psychology Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. David Creswell
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Health & Human Performance Laboratory (David Creswell)
Health & Human Performance Laboratory
J. David Creswell, PhD | Carnegie Mellon University
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Below are new research articles that we are reading in our laboratory
2.14.2018
Early Childhood Stress Exposure, Reward Pathways, and Decision-Making
(Bern et al, 2017)
This Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) study tested the role of specific mechanisms that might account for some of the negative life outcomes that have been observed in people who experienced high levels of adversity and stress in their early childhoods. Researchers discovered that individuals who experienced high levels of childhood stress displayed significant alterations in fundamental aspects of reward processing compared with those with lower levels of childhood stress.