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Pre/perinatal stress and its impact on typical and atypical offspring development: Commenting on DiPietro, Schneider, O’Connor and Glover

Year: 2011
Type: reference-entry
Abstract: focuses on offspring development in nonhuman primates. The interpretation each author gives of the results of the research in this field seems to be legitimated within the chosen framework. Apparently this does not mean that there are no conflicting interpretations. In humans, the past 25 years have in general shown empirical evidence for an association between maternal stress, anxiety and depression during pregnancy and offspring behavioural, brain behaviour and physiological outcome measures. While direct evidence for an interplay with genetic factors has been shown for a little while in animals,
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2158880562
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