Does prenatal maternal stress impair cognitive development and alter temperament characteristics in toddlers with healthy birth outcomes?

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 283-289

  Zhu, Peng ^a   Sun, Meng Sha ^a   Hao, Jia Hu ^a   Chen, Yu Jiang ^a   Jiang, Xiao Min ^b   Tao, Rui Xue ^c   Huang, Kun ^a   Tao, Fang Biao ^a  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Hefei Maternal and Child Health Hospital   (China)

^c Hefei First People's Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHECKLIST; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MOTHERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 84893741421     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.12378     Document Type: Article

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