Accumulating evidence suggests that psychological distress during pregnancy is linked to
offspring risk for externalizing outcomes (eg, reactive/aggressive behaviors, hyperactivity …

Introduction: The developmental origins of disease or fetal programming model predicts that
intrauterine exposures have life long consequences for physical and psychological health …

Emotion regulation is essential to cognitive, social, and emotional development and
difficulties with emotion regulation portend future socioemotional, academic, and behavioral …

We examined the prospective associations of objective and subjective measures of stress
during pregnancy with infant stress reactivity and regulation, an early-life predictor of …

Accumulating evidence suggests that antenatal maternal stress is associated with altered
behavioral and physiological outcomes in the offspring, however, whether this association is …

This review addresses underlying physiological, cellular, and molecular factors that alter the
developing fetal brain stress circuits and responses of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal …

One of the most consistent biological findings in the study of affective disorders is that those
with depression commonly show abnormal cortisol response, which suggests dysregulation …

Objective Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is a parasympathetic-mediated biomarker of
self-regulation linked to lifespan mental and physical health outcomes. Intergenerational …

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), or cumulative childhood stress exposures, such as
abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction, predict later health problems in both the …

Stress is broadly defined as the non-specific biological response to changes in homeostatic
demands and is mediated by the evolutionarily conserved neuroendocrine networks of the …