Understanding the trans-generational consequences of prenatal stress

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 297-298

  Ehlert, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE;

ALLELE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTITUDE; CHILDHOOD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ABUSE; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALADJUSTMENT; NEGLECT; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL STRESS; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL ABUSE;

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84885373388     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: 18791360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2013.09.002     Document Type: Editorial

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