vbid/9783030601591

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This book examines the complex impact of prenatal stress and the mechanism�of its transmission on children�s development and well-being, including prenatal�programming, epigenetics, infl ammatory processes, and the brain-gut microbiome.�It analyzes current findings on prenatal stressors affecting pregnancy, including�preconception stress, prenatal maternal depression, anxiety, and pregnancy-specific�anxieties. Chapters explore how prenatal stress affects cognitive, affective, behavioral,�and neurobiological development in children while pinpointing core processes of�adaptation, resilience, and interventions that may reduce negative behaviors and�promote optimal outcomes in children. Th is complex perspective on mechanisms�by which early environmental influences interact with prenatal programming of�susceptibility aims to inform clinical strategies and future research targeting prenatal�stress and its cyclical impact on subsequent generations. Key areas of coverage include: The developmental effects of prenatal maternal stress on children. Epigenetic effects of prenatal stress. Intergenerational transmission of parental early life stress. The microbiome-gut-brain axis and the effects of prenatal stress on early�neurodevelopment. The effect of prenatal stress on parenting. Gestational stress and resilience. Prenatal stress and children�s sleeping behavior. Prenatal, perinatal, and population-based interventions to prevent�psychopathology. Prenatal Stress and Child Development is an essential resource for researchers, professors�and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and related professionals in�infancy and early childhood development, maternal and child health, developmental�psychology, pediatrics, social work, child and adolescent psychiatry, developmental�neuroscience, and related behavioral and social sciences and medical disciplines. Excerpt from the foreword:�I would make the plea that in addition to anyone with an interest in child development, this book should be essential reading for researchers pursuing �pre-clinical, basic science models of neurodevelopment and brain health��.�This book provides what in my mind is the most advanced compilation of existing knowledge and state-of-the-art science in the field of prenatal psychiatry/psychology (and perhaps in the entire field of prenatal medicine).� This volume can brilliantly serve to focus future directions in our understanding of the perinatal determinants of brain health.� Michael J Meaney James McGill Professor of Medicine Translational Neuroscience Programme Adjunct Professor of PaediatricsTypham this is the title: Prenatal Stress and Child Development