The attachment system and physiology in adulthood: normative processes, individual differences, and implications for health. [PDF]
, 2014 Attachment theory provides a conceptual framework for understanding intersections between personality and close relationships in adulthood. Moreover, attachment has implications for stress-related physiology and physical health.
Ainsworth +88 more
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Serotonin and motherhood: From molecules to mood [PDF]
, 2019 Emerging research points to a valuable role of the monoamine neurotransmitter, serotonin, in the display of maternal behaviors and reproduction-associated plasticity in the maternal brain.
Li, Ming +2 more
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 Early life stress is known to increase the risk of depression and anxiety disorders, which are highly prevalent conditions that disproportionately affect women.
Brittany J. Baugher, Benjamin D. Sachs
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Breast feeding and resilience against psychosocial stress [PDF]
, 2006 BACKGROUND: Some early life exposures may result in a well controlled stress response, which can reduce stress related anxiety. Breast feeding may be a marker of some relevant exposures.
Ehlin, A, Montgomery, SM, Sacker, A
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Targeting the Stress System During Gestation: Is Early Handling a Protective Strategy for the Offspring? [PDF]
, 2020 The perinatal window is a critical developmental time when abnormal gestational stimuli may alter the development of the stress system that, in turn, influences behavioral and physiological responses in the newborns.
Brancato, Anna +3 more
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Psychometrics of the Spanish Version of the Screen for Adult Anxiety Related Disorders (SCAARED)
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Objectives: To translate and validate the Screen for Adult Anxiety Related Disorders (SCAARED) questionnaire into Spanish.Method: The original SCAARED was translated into Spanish and administered to a non-clinical sample of 131 university students (92.4%
Sarah Sánchez-Cueva +4 more
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Early handling and repeated cross-fostering have opposite effect on mouse emotionality [PDF]
, 2015 Early life events have a crucial role in programming the individual phenotype and exposure to traumatic experiences during infancy can increase later risk for a variety of neuropsychiatric conditions, including mood and anxiety disorders.
Battaglia, M +6 more
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Relationship Between Adult Separation Anxiety and Attachment Styles and Vaginismus
The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2021 ABSTRACTBackgroundVaginismus has an unknown etiology, is comorbid with anxiety, and is the most common sexual dysfunction in sexual dysfunction outpatient clinics in Turkey.AimThis study aimed to determine the frequency of adult separation anxiety disorder (ASAD) and styles of attachment in patients with vaginismus and to investigate its relationship ...
Ünlübilgin, Eylem +4 more
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Perinatal Stress and Methamphetamine Exposure Decreases Anxiety-Like Behavior in Adult Male Rats
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 Methamphetamine (MA) is an illicit synthetic psychostimulant drug, and its abuse is growing worldwide. MA has been reported as the primary drug of choice, by drug-abusing women, during pregnancy.
Anna Holubová-Kroupová +1 more
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Human brain evolution and the "Neuroevolutionary Time-depth Principle:" Implications for the Reclassification of fear-circuitry-related traits in DSM-V and for studying resilience to warzone-related posttraumatic stress disorder. [PDF]
, 2006 The DSM-III, DSM-IV, DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 have judiciously minimized discussion of etiologies to distance clinical psychiatry from Freudian psychoanalysis.
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan
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