{"id":206739,"date":"2025-02-19T05:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/stress-could-affect-the-development-of-the-fetal-brain"},"modified":"2025-02-19T05:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:31:21","slug":"stress-could-affect-the-development-of-the-fetal-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/stress-could-affect-the-development-of-the-fetal-brain","title":{"rendered":"Stress could affect the development of the fetal brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stress-could-affect-the-development-of-the-fetal-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disruptions in brain development are linked to higher risks of brain and mental illnesses. While genetics are known to play a role, environmental factors at the molecular and cellular levels have been less studied.<\/p>\n<p>The international team of researchers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/university\/karolinska-institutet\/\">Karolinska Institutet<\/a>, the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, and Helmholtz Munich aimed to understand how glucocorticoids \u2014 hormones involved in the body\u2019s stress response and crucial for normal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/maternal-microbiota-impact-fetal-development\/77046\/\">fetal development<\/a> \u2014 affect brain development when overexposed.<\/p>\n<p>The findings reveal that fetuses are more vulnerable to external influences like stress than previously thought. This stress can impact fetal brain development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disruptions in brain development are linked to higher risks of brain and mental illnesses. While genetics are known to play a role, environmental factors at the molecular and cellular levels have been less studied. The international team of researchers from Karolinska Institutet, the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, and Helmholtz Munich aimed to understand how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}