Does prenatal stress alter the developing connectome?

Pediatric Research

Volumn 81, Issue 1-2, 2017, Pages 214-226

  Scheinost, Dustin ^a   Sinha, Rajita ^a,b   Cross, Sarah N ^a   Kwon, Soo Hyun ^a   Sze, Gordon ^a   Constable, R Todd ^a   Ment, Laura R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULTHOOD; ANXIETY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD; CONNECTOME; FETUS BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; INFANCY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MATERNAL STRESS; NATURAL DISASTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; BRAIN; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ANXIETY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; BRAIN; CONNECTOME; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85009812084     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2016.197     Document Type: Review

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