Prenatal exposure to antidepressants and depressed maternal mood alter trajectory of infant speech perception

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

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL.2, 2012, Pages 17221-17227

  Weikum, Whitney M ^a   Oberlander, Tim F ^a   Hensch, Takao K ^b   Werker, Janet F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical periods; Infancy; Maternal depression

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; PAROXETINE; SERTRALINE; VENLAFAXINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL; AFFECT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; HEARING; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AFFECT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84864979200     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1121263109     Document Type: Article

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