Maternal cortisol over the course of pregnancy and subsequent child amygdala and hippocampus volumes and affective problems

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Buss, Claudia ^a   Davis, Elysia Poggi ^a   Shahbaba, Babak ^b   Pruessner, Jens C ^c   Head, Kevin ^a   Sandman, Curt A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Depression; Developmental programming; Emotion regulation; Fetal origins; Hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MOOD DISORDER; MOTHER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGE FACTORS; AMYGDALA; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALIVA; SEX FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84861204234     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201295109     Document Type: Article

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