Neural tissue during perinatal life is sufficiently plastic to respond to the presence of
testicular androgens. Here we studied the effect of neonatal androgen manipulation …

Fetal coexposure to nicotine and dexamethasone is common: maternal smoking increases
the incidence of preterm delivery and glucocorticoids are the consensus treatment for …

Rationale Exposure of the immature mammalian brain to stress factors, including stress
levels of glucocorticoids, either prenatally or postnatally, is regarded as a major regulatory …

AIMS: The early neonatal period is critical for the development of the rodent brain.
Neurosteroid levels in the brain decline from the late gestation to the neonatal period …

The foetal brain is highly susceptible to stress in late pregnancy, with lifelong effects of stress
on physiology and behaviour. The present study aimed to determine the physiological and …

Alterations in dopaminergic signaling and neurodevelopment are associated with many
neuropsychiatric disorders, such as attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) …

Neonatal maternal separation (MS), stressful experience early in life, leads to the
development of depression-like behaviors in the offspring later in life. This study was …

The present study was undertaken to examine the effects of prenatal nicotine exposure by
two different routes of drug administration, injection and infusion, on the development of …

Early developmental abnormalities affecting mesocortical dopamine (DA) neurons may
result in later functional deficits that play a role in the emergence of psychiatric illness in …

This study was designed to investigate the postnatal developmental plasticity of the
mesostriatal and mesolimbic dopamine systems that occurs following perinatal asphyxia …