Prenatal and perinatal psychology

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Medical specialists have warned that teenage girls are more likely to struggle with anxiety and depression if they were exposed to stress as babies. Fortunately, boys remain unaffected by the levels of stress to which they are exposed. Official medical reports have recorded that the teenage of baby girls who have mothers with depression, relationship troubles or financial woes are more likely to develop higher levels of cortisol, a stress hormone in their blood. Neurologists have found that these same female infants tend to experience differences in their brain development in later years compared to other girls. In addition to this, experts have detected that raised cortisol by the time they aged can lead to weaker brain connections. Psychologists have underlined that at the age of 18, these teenage victims tend experience high levels of anxiety which can lead to trauma, mental disorders, major depressive illness and other mental complications...