Fetal programming of brain development: Intrauterine stress and susceptibility to psychopathology

Science Signaling

Volumn 5, Issue 245, 2012, Pages

  Buss, Claudia ^a   Entringer, Sonja ^a   Wadhwa, Pathik D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COCAINE; MORPHINE;

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MOOD DISORDER; MORPHINE ADDICTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84867569169     PISSN: 19450877     EISSN: 19379145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2003406     Document Type: Conference Paper

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