Temperament & Stress

Animal Models & Responses to Stress

The Temperament & Stress/Animal Models section clearly suggests that there are inborn mechanisms that determine how organisms will respond to certain environmental stressors. Dr. Micheal J Meaney of McGill University has been leading animal research since the 1980s. His research monitors the impact of different types of nurture on nature and early nurture’s delayed gene activity effects into adulthood. (Read more)

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Nurture & Resilience

Human babies seem to have their own inborn temperament and personalities evidenced in the nature of their attention spans, reactivity to frustration, degree of activity and locomotion, developmental milestone timetable, food preferences and appetite, etc. Different animal species also present diversity of behaviors and corresponding neurobiological states that underlie behavior. (Read more)

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Human Temperament

Assessments of human temperament are difficult to develop due to the chronic cumulative interaction of both nature-nurture variables. However, from birth onward one’s temperament colors one’s current and future responses to stress. Inborn temperament shapes the manner in which patients had and will respond to stress and is an integral part of the later development of reported symptoms and behaviors. (Read more)

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