Early Experience, the Brain, and Human Development: The HELP Project

The presentation will describe the results of a broad-based program of research designed to elucidate interactions among social environmental, geonomic, and neurobiological factors that promote developmental health and well-being in children. A major focus of this long-term project is to examine linkages between social disparities in children's early parenting experiences and the development and calibration of stress-responsive neural circuitry reflecting multiple levels of analysis.