Supportive social relationships can reduce both psychological and physiological responses
to stressful experiences. Recently, studies have also assessed the potential for social …

The current study aimed to understand the mediating and/or moderating role of prenatal
hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis function in the association between maternal …

Accumulating evidence from preclinical and clinical studies indicates that maternal
psychosocial stress and anxiety during pregnancy adversely affect child outcomes …

Many promising findings support the notion that social relationships can dampen
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis stress responses and protect individuals …

Childhood exposure to traumatic events has a profound and disruptive impact on mental
and physical health, including stress physiology. In the current study, we evaluate 90 …

Interparental conflict is a common source of psychosocial stress in the lives of children. The
purpose of this study was to examine the association between recent interparental conflict …

Early adversity such as depressed maternal care can have long-term physiological and
behavioral effects on offspring and future generations. Exposure to chronic social stress …

Whereas significant advances have been made in understanding how exposure to early
adversity “gets under the skin” of children to result in long term changes in developmental …

Objective Intrauterine exposures such as maternal psychopathology and stress are known to
influence the physical and mental health of the offspring. One of the proposed pathways …

A history of childhood trauma is associated with increased risk for psychopathology and
interpersonal difficulties in adulthood and, for those who have children, impairments in …