Maternally deprived rats were treated with tianeptine (15 mg/kg) once a day for 14 days
during their adult phase. Their behavior was then assessed using the forced swimming and …

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 …

Altered affective processing has been proposed as mediating between early life stress (ELS)
and subsequent psychopathology. The present study examined whether ELS influences …

Prenatal stress (PS) durably influences responses of rats from birth throughout life by
inducing deficits of the hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis feedback. The neuronal …

Exposure of the mother to adverse events during pregnancy is known to induce pathological
programming of the HPA axis in the progeny, thereby increasing the vulnerability to …

Stress, in its different forms, represents a major environmental component for increased
susceptibility to mental illness and, indeed, stressful life events serve as significant …

Background: Prenatal indoor air pollution and maternal psychosocial factors have been
associated with adverse psychopathology. We used environmental exposure mixture …

An intact communication between circadian clocks and the stress system is important for
maintaining physiological homeostasis under resting conditions and in response to external …

The deleterious association between various types of prenatal maternal psychological
distress (PNMS, anxiety, depression, psychological distress, stress) and childhood anxiety …

Stress is generally a beneficial experience that motivates an organism to action to overcome
the stressful challenge. In particular situations, when stress becomes chronic might be …