The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is one of the main biological systems that regulates
the body's physiology. Autonomic nervous system regulatory capacity begins before birth as …

Investigations of police performance during acutely stressful situations have primarily
focused on higher-order cognitive processes like attention, affect or emotion and decision …

Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is a major cause of stillbirth, prematurity and impaired
neurodevelopment. Its etiology is multifactorial, but many cases are related to impaired …

Background Maternal stress before, during and after pregnancy has profound effects on the
development and lifelong function of the infant's neurocognitive development. We …

In the pregnant mother and her fetus, chronic prenatal stress results in entrainment of the
fetal heartbeat by the maternal heartbeat, quantified by the fetal stress index (FSI). Deep …

Background Biases in socio-emotional attention may be early markers of risk for self-
regulation difficulties and mental illness. We examined the associations between maternal …

We review evidence supporting the role of early life programming in the susceptibility for
adult neurodegenerative diseases while highlighting questions and proposing avenues for …

Depression is the most common perinatal psychiatric disorder, but little is known about how
it may impact offspring neurodevelopment, as well as the mechanisms by which it may …

We examined how infants' attentional disengagement from happy, fearful, neutral, and
phase‐scrambled faces at 8 months, as assessed by eye tracking, is associated with …

Vascular calcification is the deposition of calcium phosphate minerals in vascular tissue.
Vascular calcification occurs by both active and passive processes. Extent and tissue …