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Psychoneuroendocrinology. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2011 January 1.
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Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2010 January; 35(1): 141–153.
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High pregnancy anxiety during mid-gestation is associated with decreased gray matter density in 6-9 year-old children
This is the first prospective study to show that a specific temporal pattern of pregnancy anxiety is related to specific changes in brain morphology. Altered gray matter volume in brain regions affected by prenatal maternal anxiety may render the developing individual more vulnerable to neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders as well as cognitive and intellectual impairment.

Contributors

Qiu A, Rifkin-Graboi A, Chen H, Chong YS, Kwek K, Gluckman PD, Fortier MV, Meaney MJ.

The size of the left hippocampus during early development is likely to reflect the influence of the exposure to perinatal maternal anxiety, whereas right hippocampal growth is constrained by antenatal maternal anxiety, but enhanced in response to increased postnatal maternal anxiety

Contributors

Uguz F, Sonmez EO, Sahingoz M, Gokmen Z, Basaran M, Gezginc K, Sonmez G, Kaya N, Erdem SS, Cicekler H, Tasyurek E.

The study aimed to investigate whether maternal GAD during pregnancy affects fetal circulating brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which plays important roles in neuronal development, by comparing cord blood BDNF levels in newborn infants of women with and without GAD.
The study results imply that prolonged maternal GAD during pregnancy may negatively influence neurodevelopment of the fetusthrough lower levels of circulating BDNF.
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LINK – J Psychosom Res. 2013 Oct;75(4):346-50. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2013.04.010. Epub 2013 May 22

Front Neurosci. 2013; 7: 120.
LINK -Published online 2013 July 31. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00120
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Because fetal brain development proceeds at an extremely rapid pace, early life experiences have the potential to alter the trajectory of neurodevelopment, which may increase susceptibility for developmental and neuropsychiatric disorders. There is evidence that prenatal maternalstress and anxiety, especially worries specifically related to being pregnant, influence neurodevelopmental outcomes. In the current prospective longitudinal study, we included 89 women for whom serial data were available for pregnancy-specific anxiety, state anxiety, and depression at 15, 19, 25, 31, and 37 weeks gestation. When the offspring from the target pregnancy were between 6 and 9 years of age, their executive function was assessed. High levels of mean maternal pregnancy-specific anxiety over the course of gestation were associated with lower inhibitory control in girls only and lower visuospatial working memory performance in boys and girls. Higher-state anxiety and depression also were associated with lower visuospatial working memory performance. However, neither state anxiety nor depression explained any additional variance after accounting for pregnancy-specific anxiety. The findings contribute to the literature supporting an association between pregnancy-specific anxiety and cognitivedevelopment and extend our knowledge about the persistence of this effect until middle childhood.

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PMCID:PMC3222921

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222921/ can get full article

Contributors

Zucchi FC, Yao Y, Ward ID, Ilnytskyy Y, Olson DM, Benzies K, Kovalchuk I, Kovalchuk O, Metz GA

The gestational state is a period of particular vulnerability to diseases that affect maternal and fetal health. Stress during gestation may represent a powerful influence on maternal mental health and offspring brain plasticity and development. Here we show that the fetal transcriptome, through microRNA (miRNA) regulation, responds to prenatal stress in association with epigenetic signatures of psychiatric and neurological diseases. Pregnant Long-Evans rats were assigned to stress from gestational days 12 to 18 while others served as handled controls. Gestational stress in the dam disrupted parturient maternal behaviour and was accompanied by characteristic brain miRNA profiles in the mother and her offspring, and altered transcriptomic brain profiles in the offspring. In the offspring brains, prenatal stress upregulated miR-103, which is involved in brain pathologies, and downregulated its potential gene target Ptplb. Prenatal stress downregulated miR-145, a marker of multiple sclerosis in humans. Prenatal stress also upregulated miR-323 and miR-98, which may alter inflammatory responses in the brain. Furthermore, prenatal stress upregulated miR-219, which targets the gene Dazap1. Both miR-219 and Dazap1 are putative markers of schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder in humans. Offspring transcriptomic changes included genes related to development, axonal guidance and neuropathology. These findings indicate that prenatal stress modifies epigenetic signatures linked to disease during critical periods of fetal brain development. These observations provide a new mechanistic association between environmental and genetic risk factors in psychiatric and neurological disease.

LINK – PLoS One. 2013;8(2):e56967. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056967. Epub 2013 Feb 2

Contributors

Saugstad OD, Kwinta P, Wollen EJ, Bik-Multanowski M, Madetko-Talowska A, Jagła M, Tomasik T, Pietrzyk JJ.

Saugstad OD, Kwinta P, Wollen EJ, Bik-Multanowski M, Madetko-Talowska A, Jagła M, Tomasik T, Pietrzyk JJ.
Antenatal steroid therapy affects a limited number of genes and gene pathways in leucocytes in preterm babies at day five of life. Theeffect is short-lived, but long-term effects cannot be ruled out.

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ActaPaediatr. 2013 Apr;102(4):349-55. doi: 10.1111/apa.12166. Epub 2013 Feb 11

Contributors
Oliveira M, Rodrigues AJ, Leão P, Cardona D, Pêgo JM, Sousa N.
CONCLUSIONS:
Altogether, our results show that in utero DEX exposure can modulate anxiety and fear behaviour in parallel with significant morphological, neurochemical and molecular changes; importantly, GCs seem to differentially affect distinct brain regions involved in this type of behaviours.

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LINK – Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2012 Apr;220(3):443-53. doi: 10.1007/s00213-011-2494-y. Epub 2011 Sep 21.

ContributorsDhobale M, Joshi S.

Preterm pregnancies account for approximately 10% of the total pregnancies and are associated with low birth weight (LBW) babies. Recent studies have shown that LBW babies are at an increased risk of developing brain disorders such as cognitive dysfunction and psychiatric disorders. Maternal nutrition, particularly, micronutrients involved in one-carbon metabolism (folic acid, vitamin B(12), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)) have a major role during pregnancy for developing fetus and are important determinants of epigenesis. A series of our studies in pregnancy complications have well established the importance of omega 3 fatty acids especially DHA. DHA regulates levels of neurotrophins like brain-derived neurotrophic factor and nerve growth factor, which are required for normal neurological development. We have recently described that in one carbon metabolic pathway, membrane phospholipids are major methyl group acceptors and reduced DHA levels may result in diversion of methyl groups toward deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) ultimately resulting in DNA methylation. In this review, we propose that altered maternal micronutrients (folic acid, vitamin B(12)), increased homocysteine, and oxidative stress levels that cause epigenetic modifications may be one of the mechanisms that contribute to preterm birth and poor fetal outcome, increasing risk for behavioural disorders in children.

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LINK – J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2012 Apr;25(4):317-23. doi: 10.3109/14767058.2011.579209. Epub 2011 May 24

Nelissen EC, van Montfoort AP, Dumoulin JC, Evers JL.

CONCLUSIONS:
Studies in both animals and humans have made it increasingly clear that proper epigenetic regulation of both imprinted and non-imprinted genes is important in placental development. Its disturbance, which can be caused by various environmental factors, can lead to abnormal placental development and function with possible consequences for maternal morbidity, fetal development and disease susceptibility in later life.

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LINK – Hum Reprod Update. 2011 May-Jun;17(3):397-417. doi: 10.1093/humupd/dmq052. Epub 2010 Oct 19

This programme brings to the forefront all that was available to the woman in the Vedic period to bring out the baby as conceptualized by the couple
We will be touching upon three four simple but deep truths.
The first truth is that the consciousness enters into the baby’s body only at the time of birthing. It is not present in the womb. When the life force or prana touches any exposed part of the baby’s body which is after the rupture of the membranes, that is the moment of time, the consciousness enters. Till the time the consciousness or soul claims the body, the body of the baby is only an extension of the mother’s life.
The second truth is that the consciousness chooses the body based on the frequency of the body and itself….. the frequency of the biomemories in the body tunes in to match that of the consciousness.

Well, though directly the parents cannot choose the baby, indirectly they can prepare the body of the baby with as little or no patterns to attract a soul of higher intelligence. As is our understanding the frequency of the consciousness and that of the body of the baby need to match.The better the preparation of the body by the parents the better are the chances of getting an intelligent soul

We are now coming to the third truth. The mother not only provides nutrition to the baby but also in her awareness and unawareness instils cellular memories or limbic imprints into the body.
These are engraved memories which have mostly negative emotions in them stemming up from the powerless space of incompletion in the mother when she is in a conflict situation.
A conflict situation happens only when one feels powerless about oneself. In fact, when actually observed these are words which are often repeated within oneself about oneself, when confronted with any situation which is conflicting. This is what is called as a conflicting thought pattern
In time we begin to believe that that is what we are and all our decisions and actions come only from that powerless idea we have about us. The powerless words we give to ourselves in our unawareness get instilled into our baby also, when we are faced with a conflict. This is so with both parents and not just the mother

A root pattern can happen in the womb, during birthing and the first 6-7 years of life till the child develops an intellectual capacity to understand a situation an incompletion triggered the root pattern in us. This in scientific terms is limbic imprints

The weak powerless words a mother gives to herself find a way into the baby and get lodged within it only to surface in the baby after the consciousness descends into the body. The presence of such patterns can only attract a soul of lower consciousness to itself.

Yes conflict situations in the father also, instil conflicting thought patterns into the baby’s body. There is a very powerful scientific evidence to prove that emotions in an individual are present in the DNA material which have been obtained from the individual but kept separately in another room

Polygraph recording of the emotion undergone in the individual and that of the DNA in the room were identical and this was proof enough to say that the baby which contains the DNA material will also be affected by the father’s conflicting thought patterns. So when the baby is born and grows up, it will also respond to life from these patterns with unawareness.

Yes the program provides it all as an experiential transformational knowledge

The consciousness which aligns best with such a positive biomemory in the body of the baby lands on the body and claims it. This is what is called conscious birthing – the careful preparation of the baby’s body to allow the landing of an intelligent soul.

No, conscious parenting is the next step which helps the parents to take care that root patterns do not develop in the child atleast till the age of 6-7 years. After that the child is very well equipped to handle itself as the analytical power is available to it.