Maternal stress induces epigenetic signatures of psychiatric and neurological diseases in the offspring. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The gestational state is a period of particular vulnerability to diseases that affect maternal and fetal health. Stress during gestation may represent a powerful influence on maternal mental health and offspring brain plasticity and development.
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NSC Nursing, 2021 Introduction: Prenatal stress is often encountered but is rarely recognized and is considered not to affect pregnancy. Pregnancy has the potential to cause morbidity during pregnancy.
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Placental DEPTOR as a stress sensor during pregnancy [PDF]
, 2011 The author(s) has paid for this article to be freely available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution and ...
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Impact of Prenatal Stress on Neuroendocrine Programming
The Scientific World JOURNAL, 2007 Since life emerged on the Earth, the development of efficient strategies to cope with sudden and/or permanent changes of the environment has been virtually the unique goal pursued by every organism in order to ensure its survival and thus perpetuate the species.
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Hidden pandemic: COVID-19-related stress, SLC6A4 methylation, and infants’ temperament at 3 months
Scientific Reports, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic represents a collective trauma that may have enduring stress effects during sensitive periods, such as pregnancy. Prenatal stress may result in epigenetic signatures of stress-related genes (e.g., the serotonin transporter gene ...
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Perinatal Stressors and Consequences for Neonates with Critical Congenital Heart Disease
Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 2023 Introduction: The prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease (CHD) is a traumatic event that can cause expectant parents to experience anxiety, depression, and toxic stress. Prenatal exposure to stress may impact neonatal postoperative outcomes.
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Developmental Lead and/or Prenatal Stress Exposures Followed by Different Types of Behavioral Experience Result in the Divergence of Brain Epigenetic Profiles in a Sex, Brain Region, and Time-Dependent Manner: Implications for Neurotoxicology. [PDF]
, 2017 Over a lifetime, early developmental exposures to neurocognitive risk factors, such as lead (Pb) exposures and prenatal stress (PS), will be followed by multiple varied behavioral experiences.
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Parental Substance Abuse As an Early Traumatic Event. Preliminary Findings on Neuropsychological and Personality Functioning in Young Drug Addicts Exposed to Drugs Early. [PDF]
, 2016 open5noParental substance use is a major risk factor for child development, heightening the risk of drug problems in adolescence and young adulthood, and exposing offspring to several types of traumatic events.
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Prenatal stress and enhanced developmental plasticity [PDF]
Journal of Neural Transmission, 2018 Two separate lines of inquiry indicate (a) that prenatal stress is associated with heightened behavioral and physiological reactivity, and (b) that these postnatal phenotypes are associated with increased susceptibility to both positive and negative developmental experiences and environmental exposures.
Hartman, Sarah, Belsky, Jay
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Prenatal maternal stress and birth outcomes in rural Ghana: sex-specific associations
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019 Background In developed countries, prenatal maternal stress has been associated with poor fetal growth, however this has not been evaluated in rural sub-Saharan Africa.
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