5.52 Toddler Cortisol Profiles Predicts Early Childhood Anxiety in a Prenatally Stressed Cohort: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study

• Published in: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 57; no. 10; p. S243
• Main Authors: Mclean, Mia A., Simcock, Gabrielle, Elgbeili, Guillaume, Cobham, Vanessa E., Kildea, Sue, King, Suzanne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore Elsevier Inc 01.10.2018; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Anxiety; Child & adolescent psychiatry; Childhood; Children; Childrens health; Cortisol; Emotional disturbances; Endocrine therapy; Environmental aspects; Environmental factors; Fetuses; Heritability; Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis; Maternal stress; Mental health; Pituitary; Pregnancy; Pregnancy complications; Prenatal care; Prenatal experience; Stress; Susceptibility; Toddlers

Researchers have linked prenatal maternal stress (PNMS) to childhood anxiety symptoms. It is thought that disturbances to environmental factors, including PNMS exposure during pregnancy, influence fetal biological systems, including the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-axis, thus enhancing suscep...