Effects of psychologic stress on fetal development and pregnancy outcome

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 274-280

  Koubovec, D ^b   Geerts, L ^b   Odendaal, H J ^b   Stein, Dan J ^b   Vythilingum, B ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL STRESS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PROGENY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 24944573145     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-005-0081-9     Document Type: Review

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