Eating a low quality diet, high in foods and food components associated with chronic inflammation, during pregnancy may be associated
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Low maternal vitamin D may raise risk for ADHD in offspring
(HealthDay)—There is an association between low maternal vitamin D during early pregnancy and an elevated risk for offspring attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
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Higher maternal socioeconomics offer little protection against toxic prenatal stress
When pregnant women experience elevated anxiety, stress or depression, these prenatal stressors can alter the structure of the developing fetal
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Fertility treatment, not maternal age, causes epigenetic changes in mouse offspring
Though epigenetic disorders—diseases caused by faulty gene expression—are still rare overall, babies born using fertility treatments have up to an
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Maternal mental health problems – the impact in numbers
As many as one in five women develop a mental health problem during pregnancy or in the first year after
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Even brief maternal deprivation early in life alters adult brain function and cognition
When a baby is taken from its mother for even a brief period early in life, this traumatic event significantly
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