prenatal environment
Prenatal endocrine environment is destiny.
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At an extreme, maternal malnutrition broadly impairs fetal brain development.
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Most important, stressed mothers secrete Glucocorticoids, which enter fetal circulation and basically have the same bad consequences as in stressed infants and children.
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⇒ Stress
Just as prenatal Testosterone exposure generates an adult brain that is more sensitive to environmental triggers of Aggression, excessive prenatal glucocorticoid exposure produces an adult brain more sensitive to environmental triggers of Depression and anxiety.
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testosterone-activating genes related to increased growth in muscle cells).
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third-trimester malnutrition increased the risk of some adult diseases more than tenfold.
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see also
Let’s start at the very Beginning The Importance of Mothers
Any Kind of Mother in a Storm
Bindung der Mutter zum Kind
Tags: neurobiology science
Superlink: 051 ☣Neurobiology 050 🧠Neuroscience , 032 🧬Epigenetics
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Chapter 7 Back to the Crib Back to the Womb
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