Human neural development in the absence of species-expected stimuli: The effect of maternal or social deprivation on maturation of emotion circuitry during critical periods of development.

随着儿童进入青少年，社会对情绪反应的影响从父母向同伴转变。了解社会刺激如何塑造最终调节情绪行为的神经回路，将为整个生命周期的情绪障碍的治疗和预防提供关键信息。目前的项目通过使用大脑中情感回路的功能成像和经典条件反射方法来解决这一重要问题。

As children mature into adolescents, social influences on emotional responding transition from parents to peers. Understanding how social stimuli shape neural circuits that ultimately regulate emotional behaviour will yield critical information for treatment and prevention of emotional disorders across the lifespan. The current project addresses this important issue through the use of functional imaging of emotion circuits in the brain and classical conditioning approaches to emotion responding.