Accumulating research shows that prenatal exposure to maternal stress increases the risk
for behavioral and mental health problems later in life. This review systematically analyzes …

During pregnancy, programming of the fetal central nervous system establishes
vulnerabilities for emergence of neuropsychiatric phenotypes later in life. Psychosocial …

People exposed to more unfavourable social circumstances are more vulnerable to poor
mental health over their life course, in ways that are often determined by structural factors …

Importance Less favorable trajectories of depressive mood from adolescence to early
adulthood are associated with current and later psychopathology, impaired educational …

Abstract Purpose of Review To evaluate the degree to which recent studies provide
evidence that the effects of prenatal maternal stress (PNMS) on child health outcomes vary …

Depression is a common mental illness and research has focused on late childhood and
adolescence in an attempt to prevent or reduce later psychopathology and/or social …

Milestones of brain development in mammals are completed before birth, which provide the
prerequisite for cognitive and intellectual performances of the offspring. Prenatal challenges …

Background This study quantifies the dynamics of maternal mood focusing on
unpredictability, and to assess if greater unpredictability of prenatal maternal mood predicts …

BACKGROUND Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic gene regulatory mechanism; disruption
of this process during early embryonic development can have major consequences on both …

Background Undernutrition in pregnant women is an unfavorable environmental condition
that can affect the intrauterine development via epigenetic mechanisms and thus have long …