Prenatal stress (PNS) affects a number of traits in the offspring, including stress axis
regulation, emotionality and cognition; however, much less is known about the effects of …

Chronic stress (CS) during early life represents a major risk factor for the development of
mental disorders, including depression. According to the Two/Multiple-Hit hypothesis, the …

Early life stress poses a risk for the development of psychopathologies characterized by
disturbed emotional, social, and cognitive performance. We used maternal separation (MS …

The present study investigated the long-lasting effects of prenatal repeated restraint stress
on social behavior and anxiety, as well as its repercussions on oxytocin (OT) and …

The majority of studies examining the consequences of prenatal stress in rodent models
analyze pups having been raised by their biological mother, ie the female which …

In many species, social networks provide benefit for both the individual and the collective. In
addition to transmitting information to others, social networks provide an emotional buffer for …

Parenting induces many neurological and behavioral changes that enable parents to rear
offspring. Vasopressin plays an important role in this process via its effects on cognition …

It is well established that social recognition memory is mediated, in part, by arginine
vasopressin (AVP). AVP cells within the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BST) and medial …

Prenatal stress (PS) and early postnatal environment may alter maternal care. Infant rats
learn to identify their mother through the association between maternal care and familiar …

Stress exposure during pregnancy can 'programme'adult behaviour and hypothalamic‐
pituitary‐adrenal (HPA) axis stress responsiveness. In the present study, we utilised an …