Maternal obesity and neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders in offspring

AG Edlow - Prenatal diagnosis, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
There is a growing body of evidence from both human epidemiologic and animal studies
that prenatal and lactational exposure to maternal obesity and high‐fat diet are associated …

The environment and susceptibility to schizophrenia

AS Brown - Progress in neurobiology, 2011 - Elsevier
In the present article the putative role of environmental factors in schizophrenia is reviewed
and synthesized. Accumulating evidence from recent studies suggests that environmental …

The role of maternal obesity in the risk of neuropsychiatric disorders

HM Rivera, KJ Christiansen, EL Sullivan - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Recent evidence indicates that perinatal exposure to maternal obesity, metabolic disease,
including diabetes and hypertension, and unhealthy maternal diet has a long-term impact on …

Obstetric complications and schizophrenia: historical and meta-analytic review

M Cannon, PB Jones… - American Journal of …, 2002 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: This paper reviews the literature on obstetric complications as a risk factor for
schizophrenia. The authors trace the evolution of this literature through different methods …

The impact of maternal high-fat diet on offspring neurodevelopment

G Urbonaite, A Knyzeliene, FS Bunn… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A maternal high-fat diet affects offspring neurodevelopment with long-term consequences on
their brain health and behavior. During the past three decades, obesity has rapidly …

Elevated maternal interleukin-8 levels and risk of schizophrenia in adult offspring

AS Brown, J Hooton, CA Schaefer… - American Journal of …, 2004 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: Many studies have implicated prenatal infection in the etiology of
schizophrenia. Cytokines, a family of soluble polypeptides, are critically important in the …

Prenatal stress and risk for psychopathology: specific effects or induction of general susceptibility?

AC Huizink, EJH Mulder, JK Buitelaar - Psychological bulletin, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
This review focuses on prenatal stress as a risk factor for psychopathology. Evidence from
animal studies is summarized, and the relevance of prenatal stress models in animals for …

Maternal high-fat diet programming of the neuroendocrine system and behavior

EL Sullivan, KM Riper, R Lockard, JC Valleau - Hormones and behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
This article is part of a Special Issue “SBN 2014”. Maternal obesity, metabolic state, and diet
during gestation have profound effects on offspring development. The prevalence of …

[HTML][HTML] Prenatal psychological or metabolic stress increases the risk for psychiatric disorders: the “funnel effect” model

C Musillo, A Berry, F Cirulli - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Adverse stressful experiences in utero can redirect fetal brain development, ultimately
leading to increased risk for psychiatric disorders. Obesity during pregnancy can have …

Vitamin D supplementation during the first year of life and risk of schizophrenia: a Finnish birth cohort study

J McGrath, K Saari, H Hakko, J Jokelainen… - Schizophrenia …, 2004 - Elsevier
Objective: Based on clues from epidemiology and animal experiments, low vitamin D during
early life has been proposed as a risk factor for schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to …