During the past years there has been rapid progress in the understanding
of how early life stress impacts psychopathology in children. The first
two parts of this book present the basic principles of brain development
and describe the most important neuronal systems. This includes systems
involved in emotion processing, cognitive control, and social processes.
These first two general sections are followed by an overview about
recent research on various neuronal and psychiatric disorders, where
environmental exposures and altered brain development play an important
role: sleep, autism, ADHD and other developmental forms of
psychopathology.