Reproduction
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Mothers’ stress may increase children’s asthma
Children whose mothers are chronically stressed during their early years have a higher asthma rate than their peers, regardless of their income, gender or other known asthma risk factors.
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Is Chronic Stress Affecting Your Fertility?
Nonstop pressure and chronic stress may have a significant affect on fertility and may prevent some women from getting pregnant, according to experts.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
Prenatal Stress Keeps Infants, Toddlers Up At Night, Study Says
Anxious or depressed mothers-to-be are at increased risk of having children who will experience sleep problems in infancy and toddlerhood, finds a study that published this month in Early Human Development.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Mild stress in the womb may worsen risk of cerebral palsy
Chronic mild stress in pregnant mothers may increase the risk that their offspring will develop cerebral palsy—a group of neurological disorders marked by physical disability—according to new research in mice. The results may be the first to demonstrate such effects of stress on animals in the womb.
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Thursday, July 05, 2007
Mom’s Meat-Rich Diet Affects Kids’ Stress Response
Adults whose mothers ate an unbalanced, meat-heavy diet during pregnancy may tend to have an exaggerated hormonal response to stress, a study suggests. The findings are in line with previous research linking such prenatal diets to higher adulthood blood pressure.
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Friday, June 01, 2007
Fetuses experience stress earlier than thought
Stress in a pregnant woman may be experienced by her unborn fetus as early as 17 weeks into gestation, researchers say. Researchers have long suspected that maternal stress can damage a developing fetus, when stress hormones such as cortisol cross the placenta. Now scientists have new evidence that the unborn child’s exposure to cortisol following maternal stress is evident earlier in gestation than previously believed.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
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Psychologist raises alert on depression in pregnancy
Research suggests that hormonal changes that occur during pregnancy make women vulnerable to clinical depression and that these changes can also affect the health of the baby.
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Friday, April 06, 2007
Stress Increases Inflammation in Pregnancy, Putting Women at Risk
A new study shows that women who report high levels of stress and low social support during pregnancy are more likely to have increased immune system activity, which can trigger inflammatory responses and put them at risk for premature labor and preeclampsia. These inflammatory immune system responses involve increases in two proteins — cytokines and C-reactive protein (CRP).
Psychosocial stress increases inflammatory markers and alters cytokine production across pregnancy.
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 21(3), 2007
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Stress ‘harms brain in the womb’
Children whose mothers were stressed out during pregnancy are vulnerable to mental and behavioural problems like ADHD, mounting evidence suggests.
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Thursday, November 23, 2006
The stress of infertility
It may be hard for those who take their fertility for granted to realize how stressful infertility can be. Dr. Alice Domar, a Boston-based, world-renowned authority on the psychological effects of infertility, has done research that suggests patients with fertility problems have stress levels comparable to patients with cancer or AIDS.
Monday, October 02, 2006
Lower Fetal Weight Linked to High Distress in Mothers
Fetuses of mothers who show high rates of depression, anxiety and stress weigh less and are smaller than average at midterm, according to a recent study from the University of Miami School of Medicine. Psychobiologist Miguel Diego and colleagues found that cortisol seems to be one potential mechanism for transmitting a mother’s stress to her unborn baby. “Maternal distress is accompanied by biochemical changes, such as increased cortisol, that can both directly and indirectly affect the fetus,” Diego said. “Cortisol can directly cross through the placenta into the fetus, which could affect fetal development.”
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Stress in pregnancy hits offspring’s emotional brain
Stress experienced by a pregnant female can alter the structure of her offspring’s brain, particularly regions vital for emotional development, scientists have discovered.
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Thursday, June 22, 2006
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Baby girls born to mothers burdened by stress may be at risk for fibromyalgia
Stressful or traumatic events experienced during pregnancy can have long-lasting effects on the fetus, yet these effects may not become apparent until many years later, according to a study suggesting that girls born of such pregnancies may be at greater risk for developing a painful muscle condition called fibromyalgia as adults.
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