APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Stress, Immune and Affiliative Biomarkers Interact with Parenting Behavior to Mediate the Effects of Chronic Early Trauma on Youths' Mental Health

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Biological/Neuroscience

  • Karen Yirmiya
    Bar-Ilan university
  • Karen Yirmiya
    Interdisciplinary center herzliya
  • Amir Djalovski
    Bar-Ilan university
  • Amir Djalovski
    Interdisciplinary center herzliya
  • Galit Halevi
    Bar-Ilan university
  • Adi Ulmer-Yaniv
    Bar-Ilan university
  • Adi Ulmer-Yaniv
    Interdisciplinary center herzliya
  • Shai Motsan
    Bar-Ilan university
  • Shai Motsan
    Reichman University (IDC Herzliya)
  • Kanat-Maymon Yaniv
    Interdisciplinary center herzliya
  • Orna Zagoory-Sharon
    Interdisciplinary center herzliya
  • Ruth Feldman
    Reichman University (IDC Herzlia)

Abstract

Chronic exposure to war-related trauma altered children's hormonal and immune markers, especially in early adolescence, compared with late childhood. Levels of cortisol, oxytocin and secretory immunoglobulin-A among children and their mothers, together with their dyadic relationship, mediate the link between war exposure and children's anxiety symptoms.

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