Practitioner Review: Maternal mood in pregnancy and child development - Implications for child psychology and psychiatry

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 99-111

  O'Connor, Thomas G ^a   Monk, Catherine ^b   Fitelson, Elizabeth M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical trials; developmental programming; Prenatal anxiety

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMMING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL ANXIETY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW;

CLINICAL TRIALS; DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMMING; PRENATAL ANXIETY;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 84892623271     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12153     Document Type: Review

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