Saturday, September 3, 2011

Do Stressed Dads Pass On Stress To Their Unborn Children


Does Dad’s stress affect his unborn children? A new study in Elsevier’s Biological Psychiatry, seems to suggest the answer, “Yes, but it’s complicated”.

Most work to date has focused on maternal effects on unborn child. However, a new study has investigated paternal effects, and found that fathers exposed to chronic stress passed those stress behaviors to their offspring.

Tracing the paternal transmission of stress, the study suggested that the switch might be possible, but the process is very complicated.

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