New Insights into Prenatal Stress: Immediate- and Long-Term Effects on the Fetus and Their Timing

O’Donnell, Kieran J.; Reissland, Nadja; Glover, Vivette

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“…A potential explanation for differential effects may be the timing of stress exposure during gestation and the sex of the child. Fetal organs and systems, in particular different regions of the brain, mature at different times throughout pregnancy, suggesting that periods of vulnerability vary, and this may be one reason why stress at a particular time influences different areas of development in different ways, (O'Donnell & Glover, 2008). For example, research by King, Laplante and colleagues (for a summary see King et al, 2012) shows that the timing of stress exposure during pregnancy was associated with motor and cognitive development but not internalising and externalising behaviour.…”

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“…One example of this is neuroendocrine development, where small changes to the intrauterine environment can disrupt the development of the fetal HPA axis (Sloboda, Newnham, Moss, & Challis, 2006), which may be why physiological cascades of stressrelated hormones have received the most research attention as potential mechanisms of transmission (DiPietro, 2012;Glover, 2014b;O'Connor et al, 2014;O'Donnell & Glover, 2008;Van den Bergh, Loomans, & Mennes, 2015). When the mother experiences anxiety or stress, her HPA axis releases increased amounts of cortisol and Corticotropin Releasing Hormone (CRH) and can also suppress the activity of the placental barrier enzyme 11β -Hydroxy Steroid Dehydrogenase Type 2 (11β -HSD2) (Charil, Laplante, Vaillancourt, & King, 2010;Graignic-Philippe et al, 2014;O'Connor et al, 2014).…”

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Understanding the relationship between disaster-related prenatal maternal stress and child motor development: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study

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This thesis investigates the relationship between different aspects of disasterrelated prenatal maternal stress and child motor development, explores how stress reactions work together to predict motor development, and proposes a cascade of stress reactions as a psychological mechanism of transmission for the effects of prenatal maternal stress. It examines continuity and change in findings between 16 and 30 months and, finally, looks at whether maternal coping predicts child motor development.At recruitment, mothers (N = 224) exposed to a major flood during pregnancy completed questionnaires assessing flood exposure (QFOSS), peritraumatic distress (PDI) and dissociation (PDEQ), posttraumatic stress (IESR), a cognitive appraisal of the overall flood consequences, and coping (BriefCOPE). At 16 months (N = 145) and 30

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Understanding the relationship between disaster-related prenatal maternal stress and child motor development: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study

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A potential psychological mechanism linking disaster-related prenatal maternal stress with child cognitive and motor development at 16 months: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study.

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Cobham

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Developmental Psychology

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Fetal exposure to prenatal maternal stress can have lifelong consequences, with different types of maternal stress associated with different areas of child development. Fewer studies have focused on motor skills, even though they are strongly predictive of later development across a range of domains. Research on mechanisms of transmission has identified biological cascades of stress reactions, yet links between psychological stress reactions are rarely studied. This study investigates the relationship between different aspects of disaster-related prenatal maternal stress and child cognitive and motor development, and proposes a cascade of stress reactions as a potential mechanism of transmission. Mothers in the Queensland Flood Study (QF2011) exposed to a major flood during pregnancy completed questionnaires assessing flood exposure, symptoms of peritraumatic distress, dissociation, and posttraumatic stress (PTSD), and cognitive appraisal of the overall flood consequences. At 16 months post-partum, children's (N = 145) cognitive and motor development was assessed using the Bayley-III. Flood exposure predicted child cognitive development and maternal PTSD symptoms and negative cognitive appraisal were significantly negatively related to child motor development, with all relationships moderated by timing of exposure. Together, a cascade of stress reactions linked maternal flood exposure to poorer fine motor development. These findings suggest that the way stress reactions operate together is as important as the way they operate in isolation, and identifies a potential psychological mechanism of transmission for the effects of prenatal stress. Results have implications for conceptualizing prenatal stress research and optimizing child development in the wake of natural disasters. (PsycINFO Database Record

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New Insights into Prenatal Stress: Immediate- and Long-Term Effects on the Fetus and Their Timing

Cited by 2 publications

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Understanding the relationship between disaster-related prenatal maternal stress and child motor development: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study

Understanding the relationship between disaster-related prenatal maternal stress and child motor development: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study

A potential psychological mechanism linking disaster-related prenatal maternal stress with child cognitive and motor development at 16 months: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study.

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