Prenatal Exposure to Stress and Stress Hormones Influences Child Development
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Prenatal Exposure to Stress and Stress Hormones Influences Child Development
Stress has significant consequences throughout the lifetime. However, when it occurs early in life, the implications may be particularly profound and long lasting. Evidence suggests that high levels of maternal stress during pregnancy are associated with alterations in the normal activity of the maternal hypothlalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) and placental axis. Increased activity of this...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infants & Young Children
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0896-3746
DOI: 10.1097/00001163-200607000-00008