Environmental factors like stress and medication exposure during pregnancy can shape brain development, but the mechanisms ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol, and this would affect the ...

New postpartum depression research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medicine could lead ...

Priya Kapoor (name changed), a working professional from Delhi, was pregnant for the first time at 33. As if the stress of ...

Stress during pregnancy may cause changes in placental genes linked to cortisol regulation. These changes could impact fetal ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol -- a necessary hormone for fetal development -- and this would affect the baby's development from very ...

At seven weeks, the neurodevelopment of the babies was assessed using a specialized test (Brazelton's NBAS ... The results suggest that maternal stress — especially in early pregnancy — can cause ...

Introduction: Maternal adversity during pregnancy influences neurodevelopment ... Social interaction test results were analyzed statistically using a two-way ANOVA (maternal stress X offspring sex) ...

Satisfaction with ANC, pregnancy-related stress, cost and health outcomes will be compared using an independent t-test or analysis of variance for continuous variables and the χ 2 test or Fisher’s ...

Objective To identify factors predictive of pregnancy-related anxiety (PRA ... factors included social support (Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support), stress (Perceived Stress Scale), ...

They also found that simple 'talking therapies' can reverse the effect of stress and boost a woman's chances of becoming pregnant. The research was presented yesterday at the annual conference of ...