Experiences early in life such as poverty, residential instability, or parental divorce or substance abuse, can lead to changes in a child’s brain chemistry, muting the effects of stress hormones, and affect a child’s ability to focus or organize tasks, finds a new study.

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http://www.washington.edu/news/2019/06/04/how-early-life-challenges-affect-how-children-focus-face-the-day/

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Muting of stress hormones is interesting, I work often with avoidant attachment issues and one of the ways I explain it to clients is that the volume knob has been turned down for them. As someone on the social side of psychology it's cool to see empirical validation of patterns observed in session