It would be premature to use this finding to screen children to determine who should receive intervention, a lot more work needs to be done before we decide whether or not to make that leap.

Dustin Albert

Categorized in : Health

It's a hopeful finding, the children we studied were very susceptible to stress. But far from being doomed, they were instead particularly responsive to help.

The findings are a step toward understanding the biology of what makes a child particularly sensitive to positive and negative environments, this gives us an important clue about some of the children who need help the most.