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Maternal anxiety and infants’ hippocampal development: timing matters.
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
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Transl Psychiatry. 2013 Sep 24;3:e306. doi: 10.1038/tp.2013.79