Maternal cortisol over the course of pregnancy and subsequent child amygdala and hippocampus volumes and affective problems

By Claudia Buss, Elysia Poggi Davis, Babak Shahbaba, Jens C. Pruessner, Kevin Head, Curt A. Sandman. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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• Sex differences in anxiety and depression clinical perspectives (2014, background): “In addition, elevated levels of maternal depression and cortisol during pregnancy (Buss et al., 2012; Sandman et al., 2013) and elevated milk cortisol levels during lactation (Grey et al., 2012) have been associated with more fearful and reactive behavior in female infants and children compared to…”
• Sensitive periods of amygdala development: The role of maltreatment in preadolescence (2014, background): “Previous studies have also observed a specific association between ELS and anatomical changes in the right amygdala (Mehta et al., 2009; Buss et al., 2012).”
• Prenatal developmental origins of behavior and mental health: The influence of maternal stress in pregnancy. (2017, background): “(2015), 11 other prospective studies have examined the relationship between maternal psychological distress during pregnancy and structural brain measures in offspring during the neonatal period, in infancy and childhood, using structural MRI, diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), diffusion-tensor imagi”
• Annual Research Review: Developmental pathways linking early behavioral inhibition to later anxiety (2022, background): “…in girls, higher levels of maternal cortisol in earlier gestation were associated with a larger right amygdala volume and more affective problems at 7 years of age, and the effect of maternal cortisol on girls’ affective problems was partially mediated by the amygdala volume (Buss et al., 2012).”