Mothers - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Orbitofrontal cortex and drug use during adolescence: role of prenatal exposure to maternal smoking and BDNF genotype.

30 Oct 2009 CONTEXT: Prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking (PEMCS) may affect brain development and behavior in adolescent offspring. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the involvement of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in mediating the relationship between PEMCS ... Read more...

Postnatal diagnosis of Down syndrome: synthesis of the evidence on how best to deliver the news.

26 Sep 2009 CONTEXT: Many parents of children with Down syndrome (DS) have expressed dissatisfaction with how they learned about their child's diagnosis. DS remains the most common chromosomal condition, occurring in 1 of every 733 births, with the majority of ... Read more...

Mental health context of food insecurity: a representative cohort of families with young children.

26 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Children from food-insecure families (ie, families that lack access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food) are at risk for developmental problems. Food insecurity disproportionately occurs among low-socioeconomic status (SES) and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mothers - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Orbitofrontal cortex and drug use during adolescence: role of prenatal exposure to maternal smoking and BDNF genotype. 30 Oct 2009
• Commentary on Swallow V (2008) An exploration of mothers' and fathers' views of their identities in chronic-kidney-disease management: parents as students? Journal of Clinical Nursing 17, 3177-3186. 29 Sep 2009
• Postnatal diagnosis of Down syndrome: synthesis of the evidence on how best to deliver the news. 26 Sep 2009
• Mental health context of food insecurity: a representative cohort of families with young children. 26 Sep 2009
• Pathways to paternal engagement: longitudinal effects of risk and resilience on nonresident fathers. 30 Aug 2009
• Here we go again: a dynamic systems perspective on emotional rigidity across parent-adolescent conflicts. 30 Aug 2009
• Estimating the rate of cesarean section by maternal request: anonymous survey of obstetricians in Australia. 30 Aug 2009
• Childhood abuse and common complaints in pregnancy. 30 Aug 2009
• Maternity leave benefits in the United States: today's economic climate underlines deficiencies. 30 Aug 2009
• Mothers' perception of excessive crying in infancy in south eastern Nigeria. 30 Aug 2009
• Impact of antenatal and postpartum maternal mental illness: how are the children? 30 Aug 2009
• Impact of maternal stress, depression and anxiety on fetal neurobehavioral development. 30 Aug 2009
• Family functioning and maternal distress in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa. 30 Aug 2009
• Interventional use of the parent-child interaction assessment-II enactments: modifying an abused mother's attributions to her son. 30 Aug 2009
• Active Mothers Postpartum: a randomized controlled weight-loss intervention trial. 30 Aug 2009
• Investigating the relationship between teenage childbearing and psychological distress using longitudinal evidence. 30 Aug 2009
• Long-term maternal and subsequent pregnancy outcomes 5 years after hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets (HELLP) syndrome. 27 Aug 2009
• Elective caesarean sections--risks to the infant. 27 Aug 2009
• Depressive symptoms among mothers of children with epilepsy: a review of prevalence, associated factors, and impact on children. 17 Aug 2009
• Evaluation of changes in postnatal care using the "Parents' Postnatal Sense of Security" instrument and an assessment of the instrument's reliability and validity. 10 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Mothers'

Definition: Female parents, human or animal.

Descriptor UI: D009035

Alternative terms: Mothers; Mother; Mothers' Clubs; Club, Mothers'; Clubs, Mothers'; Mother Clubs; Mother's Clubs; Mothers Clubs; Mothers' Club;

Related Mesh Headings: Maternal Behavior;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: F01.829.263.500.320.200; I01.880.225.500.340.270; M01.620.630;

History Note: 78

Technical Notes: human & animal; /psychol: consider also MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; permitted for legal aspects of establishing maternity (as counterpart of PATERNITY); note category: do not confuse with PREGNANCY, a physiol state