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The Mechanisms Underlying Stress Dwarfism

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The Mechanisms Underlying Stress Dwarfism

when the nurse went on a three-week vacation. Despite the same food intake, Growth Hormone levels and growth plummeted. Finally, Row D shows the boy’s profile after the nurse returned from vacation. This is extraordinary. To take a concrete, nuts and bolts feature of growth, the rate at which this child was depositing calcium in his long bones could be successfully predicted by his proximity to a loved one. (Location 1813)

Growth hormone is secreted by the pituitary gland, which in turn is regulated by the Hypothalamus in the brain (Location 1817)

Mimic active licking by the mother by stroking the rat pup in the proper pattern, and growth normalizes. (Location 1833)

So Field and crew went in and started touching them: fifteen-minute periods, three times a day, stroking their bodies, moving their limbs. It worked wonders. The kids grew nearly 50 percent faster, were more active and alert, matured faster behaviorally, and were released from the hospital nearly a week earlier than the premature infants who weren’t touched. Months later, they were still doing better than infants who hadn’t been touched. (Location 1838)

Touch is one of the central experiences of an infant. (Location 1845)