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.

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.

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.