Prenatal programming of emotion regulation: Neonatal reactivity as a differential susceptibility factor moderating the outcome of prenatal cortisol levels

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 351-357

  Bolten, Margarete ^a,b   Nast, Irina ^b   Skrundz, Marta ^b   Stadler, Christina ^a   Hellhammer, Dirk H ^b,c   Meinlschmidt, Gunther ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

AUCi; Emotion regulation; HPA axis; Infancy; NNNS; Prenatal stress; Reactivity; Temperament

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INFANT; MALE; NEONATAL STRESS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE WITH RESPECT TO INCREASE; AUC(I); EMOTION-REGULATION; HPA AXIS; HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-ADRENAL AXIS; INFANCY; NICU NETWORK NEUROBEHAVIORAL SCALE; NNNS; PRENATAL STRESS; REACTIVITY; TEMPERAMENT;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANT WOMEN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84885388588     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: 18791360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2013.04.014     Document Type: Article

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