The cocktail of hormones cascading through depressed mothers' bodies may play an important role in the development of their unborn children's brains.
A higher level of depression in mothers during pregnancy was associated with higher levels of stress hormones in their children at birth, as well as with other neurological and behavioural differences, a University of Michigan-led study found.
"The two possibilities are that they are either more sensitive to stress and respond more
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