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    Cortisol levels in pregnancy as a psychobiological predictor for birth weight

    Antenatal maternal stress is thought to negatively affect fetal development, birth outcomes, and infant’s development. Glucocorticoids are suggested to be a common link between prenatal stressors and infant’s ...

    Margarete I. Bolten, Harald Wurmser in Archives of Women's Mental Health (2011)

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    Zur Bedeutung der Psychoendokrinologie in der Psychosomatik

    Ulrike Ehlert, Dirk Hellhammer in Psychotherapeut (2000)

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    Cortisol and Behavior: The “Trier Mental Challenge Test” (TMCT) — First Evaluation of a New Psychological Stress Test

    The activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is regulated by a variety of stimuli in mammals. Besides the well established circadian rhythm of HPA activity (Weitzman et al., 1971) pharmacologi...

    Dipl.-Psych. Clemens Kirschbaum in Perspectives and Promises of Clinical Psyc… (1992)