Previous studies have found that stressful events during pregnancy can influence the
developing fetus, resulting in attentional and neuromotor problems. This prospective study …

The question of whether psychosocial stress during pregnancy (alone or in combination
with fetal alcohol exposure) has negative consequences for offspring has not been clearly …

The use of alcohol by women during pregnancy is a continuing problem. In this review the
behavioral effects of prenatal alcohol from animal models are described and related to studies …

This prospective study investigated whether mild maternal stress during pregnancy could
alter the behavioral and affective responses in rhesus monkey infants in a complex, novel …

Neuromotor responses were assessed in 90 infant squirrel monkeys born from normal and
stressed pregnancies. Repeated psychological disturbance during pregnancy, evoked by …

… should be sent to Mary L. Schneider, … Composite scores were based on prior factor analyses
described by Schneider, Moore, et al. (in press). These consisted of four composite scores: …

… Schneider, in press-a; Schneider & Coe, in press), and delays in the development of Piagetian
object permanence (Schneider… inhibition in stressful situations (Schneider, in press-b). An …

… Correspondence and requests for reprints should be sent to Mary L. Schneider, University
of Wisconsin, 2175 Medical Sciences Center, 1300 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706. …

Disrupted sensory processing, characterized by over‐ or underresponsiveness to environmental
stimuli, has been reported in children with a variety of developmental disabilities. This …

Many factors during fetal life and early infancy have been found to affect the development of
the brain. The following study investigated whether maternal stress during pregnancy would …