Gestational stress influences cognition and behavior

Future Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 675-690

  Sandman, Curt A ^a   Davis, Elysia P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; corticotrophic releasing hormone; cortisol; developmental origins of disease; fetal development; fetal programming; infant development; pregnancy; prenatal stress; sex difference; stress

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 2; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MATURITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LEARNING; MATERNAL STRESS; MEMORY; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 77957164843     PISSN: 14796708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fnl.10.35     Document Type: Review

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