Neural Plasticity

The Role of the Social Environment on Adaptive Neuroplasticity in Early Development


Publishing date
01 Jan 2019
Status
Published
Submission deadline
17 Aug 2018

Lead Editor

1University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

2CNRS, Lyon, France

3University of Reading, Reading, UK

4IRCCS Eugenio Medea, Bosisio Parini, Italy


The Role of the Social Environment on Adaptive Neuroplasticity in Early Development

Description

The general frame of this issue is early brain plasticity and its capacity to adapt to typical and atypical developmental conditions. Identifying the risk factors for atypical neurodevelopment and the role of specific sensorimotor and social experiences provides an opportunity to study the potentials of brain plasticity with human and animal models.

This issue will explore scientific evidence of cerebral plasticity in relation to social interaction with the environment during early development, namely, the first 3 years of life.

The focus of the issue will be on the active role of social interactions (e.g., caregiver-infant dyad) on developmental trajectories or outcomes. However, evidence and reviews of the related adaptive neuroplasticity mechanisms will also be an important part of the issue. Therefore, the studies’ parameters may include behavioural, electrophysiological, neuroimaging, or biochemistry outcomes.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Early parent-infant interaction and its influence on neuroplasticity, in particular, studies on the effects of maternal mirroring on infant social behaviors for both human and nonhuman primates within an evolutionary perspective
  • Neuroplastic mechanisms of social development: how early social skills develop in infants and how early perturbations of early mother-infant communication might change social developmental trajectories
  • Epigenetic regulation of intersubjectivity: there is an increased interest in the effects of early social experience on epigenetic expressions. While the work on early stressors on social development was described in rodents’ models, less is known on human and nonhuman primates, which will be addressed in this special issue
  • Effects of early experience and adversity on brain development, for example, in infants with malformations (e.g., cleft-lip) or institutionalized children: how early difficulties or disruption of parent-infant communication impact brain development; how the severity of social deprivation might have long-term effects
  • Animal models of infant brain development and interaction: nonhuman models of brain development with special emphasis on the interaction between gene and environment
  • Neurorehabilitation through dyadic relationship interventions, for example, book sharing intervention and cognitive development in children or action observation therapy in cerebral palsy children
  • Cultural diversity in human rearing and early development

Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2019
  • - Article ID 5375849
  • - Editorial

The Role of the Social Environment on Adaptive Neuroplasticity in Early Development

A. Guzzetta | L. Murray | ... | P. F. Ferrari
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2019
  • - Article ID 5759694
  • - Review Article

Parent-Infant Interaction during the First Year of Life in Infants at High Risk for Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review of the Literature

F. Festante | C. Antonelli | ... | A. Guzzetta
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2019
  • - Article ID 9638973
  • - Research Article

Empathy in Youths with Conduct Disorder and Callous-Unemotional Traits

Annarita Milone | Luca Cerniglia | ... | Pietro Muratori
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2019
  • - Article ID 7253768
  • - Research Article

Autonomic Responses to Emotional Stimuli in Children Affected by Facial Palsy: The Case of Moebius Syndrome

Ylenia Nicolini | Barbara Manini | ... | Pier Francesco Ferrari
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2019
  • - Article ID 3972918
  • - Review Article

Neuroprocessing Mechanisms of Music during Fetal and Neonatal Development: A Role in Neuroplasticity and Neurodevelopment

O. Chorna | M. Filippa | ... | A. Guzzetta
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2019
  • - Article ID 6873270
  • - Review Article

Language in Preterm Born Children: Atypical Development and Effects of Early Interventions on Neuroplasticity

Charlotte Vandormael | Lucie Schoenhals | ... | Cristina Borradori Tolsa
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2019
  • - Article ID 2747460
  • - Research Article

Alterations of the Brain Microstructure and Corresponding Functional Connectivity in Early-Blind Adolescents

Zhifeng Zhou | Jinping Xu | ... | Hengguo Li
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2019
  • - Article ID 7517351
  • - Research Article

Effects on Parental Stress of Early Home-Based CareToy Intervention in Low-Risk Preterm Infants

Giuseppina Sgandurra | Elena Beani | ... | Giovanni Cioni
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2019
  • - Article ID 1676285
  • - Review Article

How Early Experience Shapes Human Development: The Case of Psychosocial Deprivation

Charles A. Nelson | Charles H. Zeanah | Nathan A. Fox
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2018
  • - Article ID 2576047
  • - Research Article

fMRI Evidence of Magnitude Manipulation during Numerical Order Processing in Congenitally Deaf Signers

Josefine Andin | Peter Fransson | ... | Mary Rudner
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