Stress during pregnancy adversely affects foetal development and leads to later behavioural
outcomes in offspring. Preclinical studies have reported conflicting effects of prenatal stress …

Stress during rat gestation can elicit depression-like physiological and behavioral responses
in the offspring. However, human clinical depression is more prevalent among females than …

In humans, stressful events during pregnancy may raise the risk of psychiatric disorders in
offspring, and studies with rodents have found that physical prenatal stress can cause …

Prenatal stress (PS) is a major risk factor for the development of emotional disorders in
adulthood that may be mediated by an altered hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis …

An adverse environment in early life is often associated with dysregulation of the
hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and higher rates of mood disorders in adulthood …

Chronic or repeated stress during human fetal brain development has been associated with
various learning, behavioral, and/or mood disorders, including depression in later life. The …

Adverse life events during pregnancy may impact upon the developing fetus, predisposing
prenatally stressed offspring to the development of psychopathology. In the present study …

Stress or high levels of glucocorticoids (GCs) during developmental periods is known to
induce persistent effects in the neuroendocrine circuits that control stress response, which …

Many studies have been shown that maternal stress during pregnancy and in early life
period influences offspring in the behavioral and molecular aspects in human and animal …

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 …