Association of Maternal Cumulative Risk during Pregnancy and IQ in Preschoolers: Role of Glucocorticoids and their Receptors
There may be a cumulative effect of social and environmental risk factors which lead to chronic, elevated levels of stress. Constant elevations of maternal stress hormones during pregnancy disrupt developing fetal brain chemistry and architecture, resulting in later memory and learning deficiencies....
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2012
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7916/D8BC45H7 |