The following article on the research of Dolores Malaspina, chair of our dept of psychiatry at NYU Medical Center, replacing the irreplaceable Bob Cancro, confirms a position I articulated 11 years ago when I was studying the effects of cortisol on the developing fetal neuroaxis. Marta Weinstock’s research in Israel demonstrated ADHD type sx in offspring whose mothers suffered a great deal of stress during pregnancy. There is a great deal of this kind of research involving the effects of war (the devastating invasion of Finland by Russia, the nuclear holocaust of Japan, etc.) I am including some material on this subject from a previous paper of mine given at an international psychiatry conference.
Brian Koehler
Click Here To Read: Material on Prenatal Stress and Schizophrenia by Brian Koehler
Click Here To Read: Offspring of Mothers Exposed to Severe Stress More Likely to Have Schizophrenia, Study Finds (Great Neck, NY – September 08, 2008), This article was adapted by NARSAD with permission of NYU Langone Medical Center/New York University School of Medicine.