Maternal stress responses and anxiety during pregnancy: Effects on fetal heart rate

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-77

  Monk, Catherine ^a   Fifer, William P ^a,b   Myers, Michael M ^a,b   Sloan, Richard P ^a,b   Trien, Leslie ^b   Hurtado, Alicia ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Heart rate; Human fetus; Pregnant women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033965325     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(200001)36:1<67::AID-DEV7>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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