Easing maternal anxiety: An update

Women's Health

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 205-213

  Zelkowitz, Phyllis ^a   Papageorgiou, Apostolos ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

anxiety; hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; mothers; postpartum; pregnancy; prenatal programming

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; OXYTOCIN;

ANXIETY DISORDER; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL STRESS; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 84858022556     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/whe.11.96     Document Type: Review

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