The role of prenatal stress in the etiology of developmental behavioural disorders

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 457-470

  Kofman, Ora ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention deficits; Corticosteroids; Emotional reactivity; Foetal heart rate variability; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Learning; Locomotion; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DOPAMINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ANXIETY; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; COURTSHIP; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FETUS HEART RATE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOCOMOTION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036627586     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(02)00015-5     Document Type: Review

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