ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2022
Fetal Hippocampal Connectivity Shows Dissociable Associations with Maternal Cortisol and Self-Reported Distress during Pregnancy.
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- Intergenerational effects of racism on amygdala and hippocampus resting state functional connectivity.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Brain structural and functional outcomes in the offspring of women experiencing psychological distress during pregnancy.Molecular psychiatry · 2024Review
- Characterizing Large-Scale Human Circuit Development with In Vivo Neuroimaging.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2024Review
- An Effect of Chronic Negative Stress on Hippocampal Structures and Functional Connectivity in Patients with Depressive Disorder.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2024Article
- Fetal Frontolimbic Connectivity Prospectively Associates With Aggression in Toddlers.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2023Article
- Mental health, sleep quality, and hormonal circadian rhythms in pregnant women with threatened preterm labor: a prospective observational study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Observational
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Abstract
Maternal stress can shape long-term child neurodevelopment beginning in utero. One mechanism by which stress is transmitted from mothers to their offspring is via alterations in maternal cortisol, which can cross the placenta and bind to glucocorticoid receptor-rich regions in the fetal brain, such as the hippocampus. Although prior studies have demonstrated associations between maternal prenatal stress and cortisol levels with child brain development, we lack information about the extent to which these associations originate prior to birth and prior to confounding postnatal influences. Pregnant mothers (
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