Chernobyl exposure as stressor during pregnancy and behaviour in adolescent offspring

Title: Chernobyl exposure as stressor during pregnancy and behaviour in adolescent offspring

Author:　Huizink AC, Dick DM, Sihvola E, Pulkkinen L, Rose RJ, Kaprio J

Reference: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica [2007, 116(6):438-446]

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2007.01050.x

Keywords: stressor, pregnancy, utero exposure

Abstract: Research in animals has shown that exposure to stressors during pregnancy is associated with offspring behavioural disorders. We aimed to study the effect of in utero exposure to the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and maternal anxiety presumably associated with that exposure, on behaviour disorder observed at age 14.

URL:http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/17997723/reload=0;jsessionid=hGAqsKrHmmv8rx35ys6y.12