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Influence of prenatal maternal stress, maternal plasma cortisol and cortisol in the amniotic fluid on birth outcomes and child temperament at 3 months

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It is suggested that foetal cortisol may be an important predictor of infant outcomes and shed light on the mechanisms through which prenatal maternal stress affects infant psychological health.
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This article is published in Psychoneuroendocrinology.The article was published on 2013-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 174 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Amniocentesis & Amniotic fluid.

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Prenatal developmental origins of behavior and mental health: The influence of maternal stress in pregnancy

TL;DR: This review systematically analyzes the available human studies to identify harmful stressors, vulnerable periods during pregnancy, specificities in the outcome and biological correlates of the relation between maternal stress and offspring outcome.
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Effects of prenatal stress on fetal and child development: A critical literature review.

TL;DR: It appears necessary to assess individual stress reactivity prospectively and separately at each trimester of pregnancy, to discriminate chronic from acute stress, and to take into consideration moderator variables such as past life events, sociocultural factors, predictability, social support and coping strategies.
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Prenatal stress and its effects on the fetus and the child: possible underlying biological mechanisms.

TL;DR: Many prospective studies have shown that if a mother is depressed, anxious or stressed while pregnant, this increases the risk for her child having a wide range of adverse outcomes including emotional problems, symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or impaired cognitive development.
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Changes in the maternal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in pregnancy and postpartum: influences on maternal and fetal outcomes

TL;DR: Emerging data from human studies linking dysregulation of the maternal HPA axis to outcomes in both the mother and her offspring support longer term consequences for the offspring including re-setting of the HPAaxis and susceptibility to neurodevelopmental problems and cardiometabolic disease.
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Using multivariate statistics

TL;DR: In this Section: 1. Multivariate Statistics: Why? and 2. A Guide to Statistical Techniques: Using the Book Research Questions and Associated Techniques.

Manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

TL;DR: The STAI as mentioned in this paper is an indicator of two types of anxiety, the state and trait anxiety, and measure the severity of the overall anxiety level, which is appropriate for those who have at least a sixth grade reading level.
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A comparison of methods to test mediation and other intervening variable effects.

TL;DR: A Monte Carlo study compared 14 methods to test the statistical significance of the intervening variable effect and found two methods based on the distribution of the product and 2 difference-in-coefficients methods have the most accurate Type I error rates and greatest statistical power.
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