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| Elysia P DavisSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Prenatal treatment with glucocorticoids sensitizes the hpa axis response to stress among full-term infantsElysia Poggi Davis
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, 333 City Blvd W, Suite 1200, Orange, CA 92868, USA
Dev Psychobiol 53:175-83. 2011..These data add to accumulating evidence that prenatal exposure to elevated GCs programs the development of the HPA axis...
Prenatal psychobiological predictors of anxiety risk in preadolescent childrenElysia Poggi Davis
Women and Children s Health and Well Being Project, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA 92868, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 37:1224-33. 2012....- Developmental differences in infant salivary alpha-amylase and cortisol responses to stressElysia Poggi Davis
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 34:795-804. 2009.... - The timing of prenatal exposure to maternal cortisol and psychosocial stress is associated with human infant cognitive developmentElysia P Davis
University of California, Irvine, USA
Child Dev 81:131-48. 2010..These data suggest that maternal cortisol and pregnancy-specific anxiety have programming influences on the developing fetus... - Prenatal maternal stress programs infant stress regulationElysia Poggi Davis
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA 92868, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 52:119-29. 2011..The current investigation examined the influence of prenatal maternal cortisol and maternal psychosocial stress on infant physiological and behavioral responses to stress... 
Prenatal exposure to maternal depression and cortisol influences infant temperamentElysia Poggi Davis
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:737-46. 2007..Few prospective studies of human pregnancy have examined the consequences of prenatal exposure to stress and stress hormones...- Effect of prenatal glucocorticoid treatment on size at birth among infants born at term gestationE P Davis
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA 92677, USA
J Perinatol 29:731-7. 2009..To determine whether prenatal treatment with a single course of glucocorticoids (GCs) affects size at birth among full-term infants independent of fetal size before GC administration or exposure to preterm labor (PTL)... - Antenatal betamethasone treatment has a persisting influence on infant HPA axis regulationE P Davis
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92868, USA
J Perinatol 26:147-53. 2006..To examine the consequences of antenatal betamethasone (AB) exposure on postnatal stress regulation... - Corticotropin-releasing hormone during pregnancy is associated with infant temperamentElysia Poggi Davis
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92677, USA
Dev Neurosci 27:299-305. 2005..These data suggest that prenatal exposure to CRH may exert influences that persist into the postnatal period... - Effects of prenatal betamethasone exposure on regulation of stress physiology in healthy premature infantsElysia Poggi Davis
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California Irvine, City Tower, 333 City Boulevard West, Orange, CA 92868, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 29:1028-36. 2004..These findings suggest that antenatal corticosteroids suppress infants' HPA response to a stressor typically encountered in a neonatal intensive care situation... - Postnatal maternal cortisol levels predict temperament in healthy breastfed infantsLaura M Glynn
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92868, USA
Early Hum Dev 83:675-81. 2007..Animal models suggest that ingestion of glucocorticoids during the neonatal period influences fear behavior and modifies brain development... - Exposure to prenatal psychobiological stress exerts programming influences on the mother and her fetusCurt A Sandman
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Women and Children s Health and Well Being Project, Orange, CA 92868, USA
Neuroendocrinology 95:7-21. 2012..Accumulating evidence from a relatively small number of prospective studies indicates that exposure to prenatal stress profoundly influences the developing human fetus with consequences that persist into childhood and very likely forever... - Fragmentation and unpredictability of early-life experience in mental disordersTallie Z Baram
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Calif, USA
Am J Psychiatry 169:907-15. 2012..Similar variability and inconsistency of maternal signals during both gestation and early postnatal human life may influence development of emotional and cognitive functions, including those that underlie later depression and anxiety... - Low levels of corticotropin-releasing hormone during early pregnancy are associated with precocious maturation of the human fetusQuetzal A Class
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Dev Neurosci 30:419-26. 2008..The findings suggest that exposure to low levels of pCRH early in gestation may be optimal and associated with a response pattern indicating greater maturity... - Sensitization of cardiac responses to pain in preterm infantsBeth L Pineles
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
Neonatology 91:190-5. 2007..There is evidence from both animal and human studies that exposure to pain during the neonatal period may have persisting consequences for development... - Prenatal programming of human neurological functionCurt A Sandman
Women and Children s Health and Well Being Project, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Orange, CA 92868, USA
Int J Pept 2011:837596. 2011..The studies reviewed indicate that fetal exposure to stress peptides and hormones exerts profound programming influences on the nervous system and may increase the risk for emotional and cognitive impairment... - High pregnancy anxiety during mid-gestation is associated with decreased gray matter density in 6-9-year-old childrenClaudia Buss
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA 92868, United States
Psychoneuroendocrinology 35:141-53. 2010..Altered gray matter volume in brain regions affected by prenatal maternal anxiety may render the developing individual more vulnerable to neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders as well as cognitive and intellectual impairment... - Developmental changes in the responses of preterm infants to a painful stressorRachel Lucas-Thompson
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California Irvine, 300 Social Ecology I, Irvine, CA 92697 7050, USA
Infant Behav Dev 31:614-23. 2008..The greater stress vulnerability of the 28-31 weeks' gestation group relative to the 32-34 weeks' gestation group and the implications of this for subsequent development are discussed... - Maturation of the human fetal startle response: evidence for sex-specific maturation of the human fetusClaudia Buss
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, 333 The City Blvd W, Suite 1200, Orange, CA 92868, USA
Early Hum Dev 85:633-8. 2009..The results indicate that there are different rates of maturation in the male and female fetuses that may have implications for sex-specific programming influences... - Individual differences in children's cortisol response to the beginning of a new school yearJacqueline Bruce
Institute of Child Development, 51 East River Road, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 27:635-50. 2002..In contrast, shyness, which negatively contributes to Surgency, was positively correlated with evening change scores on the fifth day of school... - The anterior attention network: associations with temperament and neuroendocrine activity in 6-year-old childrenElysia Poggi Davis
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0345, USA
Dev Psychobiol 40:43-56. 2002..However, these data also illustrate the multifaceted nature of effortful control and the need for care when attempting to understand the neural systems involved in the effortful regulation of behavior...
Research Grants
- Prenatal Programming of Infant TemperamentElysia Davis; Fiscal Year: 2007..Prospective studies, such as this one, are needed to better understand processes that might underlie this association. ..
- Prenatal Glucocorticoids Influence Brain and BehaviorElysia Davis; Fiscal Year: 2007..This project will provide the first opportunity to examine the independent influence of fetal exposure to GC's in a group of children born at term. ..
- Prenatal Glucocorticoids Influence Brain and BehaviorElysia Poggi Davis; Fiscal Year: 2010..This project will provide the first opportunity to examine the independent influence of fetal exposure to GC's in a group of children born at term. ..
- Vulnerability to Prenatal Glucocorticoids Programs Infant DevelopmentElysia Poggi Davis; Fiscal Year: 2010..This investigation will identify fetuses who are vulnerable to the negative consequences of prenatal glucocorticoid treatment for birth outcome and infant development. ..