Relationship between pregnancy experience and the development of certain neuropsychiatric disorders in childhood
Author(s) -
Abraham M. Lilienfeld,
Benjamin Pasamanick,
Martha Rogers
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyw067
Subject(s) - causality (physics) , abortion , pregnancy , medicine , public health , psychiatry , fetus , developmental psychology , psychology , obstetrics , pathology , physics , biology , genetics , quantum mechanics
A continuum of reproductive causality is postulated, extending from fetal deaths - abortion, stillbirth, and neonatal - through a descending gradient of brain damage manifested in neuropsychiatric disorders. The research and administrative public health implications of these findings and the concept of the continuum are briefly but provocatively discussed.
Accelerating Research
Robert Robinson Avenue,
Oxford Science Park, Oxford
OX4 4GP, United Kingdom
Address
John Eccles HouseRobert Robinson Avenue,
Oxford Science Park, Oxford
OX4 4GP, United Kingdom