The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Now, of course, certain events happen during that birth to 25 period in which positive events and negative events are really stamped down into our nervous system in a very dramatic fashion, by what we call one-trial learning.
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And I should just say that throughout the entire lifespan, the nervous system can change very quickly in response to negative experiences. We can almost all engage in what's called one trial learning where if something really terrible or traumatic happens to us, our nervous system will rewire almost immediately, at least within a few days, such that we tend to want to avoid the experience that led to that trauma.
In fact, there's something called one trial learning whereby we experience something and we will remember that thing forever.
If you take a rat or a mouse and put it in an arena where at one location the animal receives an electrical shock and then you come back the next day, you remove the shock evoking device and you let the animal move around that arena, that animal will quite understandably avoid the location where it was shocked.