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Maternal Anxiety and Infant Hippocampus Development Reference

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Maternal symptoms of anxiety and depression were associated with higher conflict and lower rates of organization. 

Maternal Anxiety and Depression

Children of mothers reporting increased anxiety during pregnancy correlated with slower growth of the left and right hippocampus in their child over the first 6 months of life(key area for regulating stress). The size of the right hippocampus in an infant is likely to increase in response to postnatal maternal anxiety, whereas the size of the left hippocampus reflects an exposure to perinatal maternal anxiety.

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