Maternal stress beginning in infancy may sensitize children to later stress exposure: effects on cortisol and behavior.

By Marilyn J. Essex, M. Klein, Eunsuk Cho, Ned H. Kalin. Biological Psychiatry, 2002

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Associations between parents' marital functioning, maternal parenting quality, maternal emotion and child cortisol levels (2007, background): “…levels and maternal emotional functioning if the mean level of mothers’ depressive symptomatology in our sample were closer to the clinical range (CES-D scores of 16 and up; Radloff, 1977) or when preceded by exposure to clinical levels of depression during infancy (see Essex et al., 2002).”
How experience gets under the skin to create gradients in developmental health. (2010, background): “Systematic differences in cortisol levels have been reported according to parental income, education, and employment status (65, 66); the mother’s depressive symptoms (28, 67); childhood adversity (11, 30, 38); and the stressfulness of social environments (32, 38).”
The stress system in the human brain in depression and neurodegeneration. (2005, background): “…at infancy and subsequent stress during childhood is accompanied by a sensitization of the child's HPA-axis response to subsequent stress exposure (Holsboer and Barden, 1996; Checkley, 1996; Nemeroff, 1996; Clark, 1998; Kraemer, 1997; Carlson and Earls, 1997; Meaney, 2001; Essex et al., 2002).”
Research digest (2009, background): “Studies of the impact of exposure to maternal depression or parental bipolar disorder have also reported elevated basal cortisol secretion in the offspring (Essex et al., 2002; Hessl et al., 1998; Mannie et al., 2007; Ellenbogen et al., 2006).”
The neurobiology of stress and development. (2007, background): “There is also evidence that early disruptions in the parentchild relationship may produce increased levels of cortisol by the preschool years and that these heightened levels predict increased behavioral and emotional problems in the school-aged child (Essex et al. 2002).”
Evolution and ontogeny of stress response to social challenges in the human child (2006, background): “Nonetheless, traumatic family events and social emotions, such as guilt and shame (Flinn, 2006b) were associated with elevated cortisol levels for all ages of children more than any other factor that we examined.”
Prenatal Maternal Anxiety and Depression Predict Negative Behavioral Reactivity in Infancy (2004, positive): “Maternal stress, anxiety, and depression during infancy have pervasive influences on development including enhanced stress reactivity, poor emotional regulation, and impaired cognitive development (Coghill, Caplan, Alexandra, Robson, & Kumar, 1986; Dawson, Ashman, & Carver, 2000; Downey & Coyne, 199”