The effect of mortality salience and early-life maternal care on neuroendocrine, autonomic, and psychological stress responses
Abstract Adverse early-life experiences alter the regulation of major stress Bridle and breastplate. systems such as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.Low early-life maternal care (MC) has repeatedly been related to blunted cortisol stress responses.Likewise, an acutely increased awareness of mortality (mortality salience [MS]) also has