Maternal Exposure to Childhood Trauma Is Associated during Pregnancy with Placental-Fetal Stress Physiology

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 831-839

  Moog, Nora K ^a,b   Buss, Claudia ^a,b,c   Entringer, Sonja ^a,b,c,e   Shahbaba, Babak ^d   Gillen, Daniel L ^d   Hobel, Calvin J ^e   Wadhwa, Pathik D ^a,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

^e CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood trauma; Developmental programming; Intergenerational transmission; Placental CRH; Preconceptional stress; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD TRAUMA; CHILDHOOD TRAUMA QUESTIONNAIRE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATERNAL BLOOD; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; FETUS DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PLACENTA DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84945926323     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.08.032     Document Type: Article

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