Early Life Adversity and Oxytocinergic Plasticity: A Cross-Level Framework from Human Evidence and Animal Models.
Early life adversity (ELA) is associated with long-lasting alterations in socio-emotional behavior, stress regulation, and psychopathology risk. A growing literature implicates the oxytocinergic system in these outcomes, yet findings across human and animal studies remain highly heterogeneous. This review advances a cr...