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Developmental Sensitive Periods

Developmental Sensitive Periods is a theoretical construct in behavioral teratology denoting a temporally restricted phase during ontogenesis when specific developing neural or behavioral systems exhibit heightened vulnerability to environmental perturbations, thereby critically influencing long-term functional outcomes.

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Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and the Childhood Roots of Health Disparities

Jack P. Shonkoff, W. Thomas Boyce, Bruce S. McEwen · JAMA · 2009 · 2.3K citations

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Maturational Constraints on Language Development

Michael H. Long · Studies in Second Language Acquisition · 1990 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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The development of aggressive behaviour during childhood: What have we learned in the past century?

Richard E. Tremblay · International Journal of Behavioral Development · 2000 · 839 citations

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Critical Periods of Vulnerability for the Developing Nervous System: Evidence from Humans and Animal Models

Deborah C. Rice, Stan Barone · Environmental Health Perspectives · 2000 · 701 citations · Full text

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Preliminary Evidence for Sensitive Periods in the Effect of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Regional Brain Development

Susan L. Andersen, Akemi Tomada, Evelyn S. Vincow et al. · Journal of Neuropsychiatry · 2008 · 613 citations · Full text

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    Erin C. Dunn

    Massachusetts General Hospital, United States

    11 publications · 1.1K citations

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    Andrew Smith

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 791 citations

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    Martin H. Teicher

    McLean Hospital, United States

    6 publications · 2.5K citations

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    Willem E. Frankenhuis

    Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

    5 publications · 209 citations

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    Andrew J. Simpkin

    Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway, Ireland

    4 publications · 510 citations

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  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    26 h-index

    86 publications

    15.9K citations

  2. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    16 h-index

    55 publications

    5.4K citations

  3. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    11 h-index

    20 publications

    2.7K citations

  4. Massachusetts General Hospital

    Boston, United States

    11 h-index

    44 publications

    4.4K citations

  5. Broad Institute

    Cambridge, United States

    10 h-index

    15 publications

    1.7K citations

  6. McLean Hospital

    Belmont, United States

    10 h-index

    27 publications

    7K citations

  7. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    21 publications

    2K citations

  8. New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

    New York, United States

    8 h-index

    36 publications

    2.3K citations

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  1. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

    12 publications · 447 citations

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  2. Journal of Neuroscience

    7 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. Development and Psychopathology

    7 publications · 218 citations

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  4. PLoS ONE

    7 publications · 582 citations

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  5. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 6 publications · 627 citations

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