Effects of Prenatal Social Stress on Offspring Development : Pathology or Adaptation?  

Oleh:

Kaiser, Sylvia ; Sachser, Norbert

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Current Directions in Psychological Science vol. 18 no. 02 (Apr. 2009), page 118-121.
Topik: Adaptation; Behavioral Development; Pathology; Prenatal Social Stress; Social Environment
Fulltext: 11. Effects of Prenatal Social Stress on Offspring Development - Pathology or Adaptation.pdf (106.14KB)

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In nonhuman mammals, the social environment in which pregnant females live is critical for their offsprings’ brain development, endocrine state, and social and sexual behavior later in life. Social instability during pregnancy generally brings about a behavioral and neuroendocrine masculinization in daughters and a less pronounced expression of male-typical traits in sons. We favor the hypothesis that such behavioral effects of prenatal social stress are not necessarily ‘‘pathological’’ (nonadaptive) consequences of adverse social conditions. Rather, pregnant mothers could be adjusting their offspring to their environment in an adaptive way.

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