Early-life adversity (ELA) is a major risk factor for developing later-life mental and metabolic
disorders. However, if and to what extent ELA contributes to the comorbidity and sex …

Distressing events during pregnancy that engage activity of the body's endocrine stress
response have been linked with later life cognitive deficits in offspring and associated with …

After large neocortical lesions, such as hemidecortication, children can show significant
motor and cognitive impairments. It thus is of considerable interest to identify treatments that …

Prenatal stress (PS) results in various behavioral and emotional alterations observed in later
life. In particular, PS impairs spatial learning and memory processes but the underlying …

Recent studies have shown that tactile stimulation (TS) in pups is able to prevent and/or
minimize fear, anxiety behaviors, and addiction to psychostimulant drugs in adult rats. In …

Numerous studies have shown that prenatal stress (PS) induces learning and memory
deficits in offspring, yet the specific mechanisms and effective interventions remain limited …

Simple Summary Body tactile stimulation, such as human massage therapy, is a way to
relieve stress in humans and other animals, therefore it could improve animal health and …

Depression is a common psychiatric disease which pharmacological treatment relieves
symptoms, but still far from ideal. Tactile stimulation (TS) has shown beneficial influences in …

Objectives This study investigated the effects of environmental enrichment (EE) on the
behavior and histological alterations of rats with barrel cortex damage. Methods Forty-eight …

Prenatal glucocorticoid (GC) overexposure impacts fetal hippocampal neural stem cells
(NSCs) and increases the risk for relative cognitive and mood disorders in offspring …