Stress During Pregnancy and Schizophrenia


	Stress During Pregnancy and Schizophrenia

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c7f42c53-4d62-40d4-b5cd-d662d56679f6/FC595A55-8946-443E-9D17-5B01D16992C3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/02/17/stress-levels-in-pregnant-women-affects-development-of-schizophrenia-in-offspring/" href="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/02/17/stress-levels-in-pregnant-women-affects-development-of-schizophrenia-in-offspring/" style="font-size: 11px;">psychcentral.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/02/17/stress-levels-in-pregnant-women-affects-development-of-schizophrenia-in-offspring/"><H1 id="post-1930"><A title="Permanent Link: Stress Levels in Pregnant Women affect development of Schizophrenia in offspring" rel="bookmark" href="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/02/17/stress-levels-in-pregnant-women-affects-development-of-schizophrenia-in-offspring/">Stress Levels in Pregnant Women affect development of Schizophrenia in offspring</A></H1></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/02/17/stress-levels-in-pregnant-women-affects-development-of-schizophrenia-in-offspring/" href="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/02/17/stress-levels-in-pregnant-women-affects-development-of-schizophrenia-in-offspring/" style="font-size: 11px;">psychcentral.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/02/17/stress-levels-in-pregnant-women-affects-development-of-schizophrenia-in-offspring/"><P>Scientists have long believed that since schizophrenia is associated with abnormal brain structure and functioning that a mothers’ stress during pregnancy could adversely affect brain development in the fetus, even causing mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Now there is strong evidence to support these assumptions.  <A href="http://pubs.ama-assn.org/media/2008a/0204.dtl#1">According to a report in the Archives of General Psychiatry</A>, people born to a mother who experienced the death of a relative during the first trimester of pregnancy have a 67% greater risk of developing schizophrenia.  </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/02/17/stress-levels-in-pregnant-women-affects-development-of-schizophrenia-in-offspring/">the death of relative at six months before or any other time during pregnancy was not found to be related to the development of schizophrenia in offspring.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FC595A55-8946-443E-9D17-5B01D16992C3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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