Stress and reproduction: introduction to the special section.
This special section on stress and reproduction is devoted to an emerging frontier in interdisciplinary research that merits the attention of health psychologists. The majority of the studies concern the role of stress and emotion on birth outcomes such as low birth weight, fetal growth and preterm delivery, or mechanisms underlying these findings. The implications of this research extend from maternal and infant health to life-span development and adult health and mortality.
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Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095-1563, USA. dunkel@psych.ucla.edu
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000523:psychology*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D012098:Reproduction; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000503:physiopathology*