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Sex-related differences in the brain associated with depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are related to maternal stress during fetal development. This finding points to the need to explore sex-dependent targets for early therapeutic intervention and prevention.
Men and women whose mothers experienced stressful events during pregnancy regulate stress differently in the brain 45 years later, results of a long-term study demonstrate.
In a unique sample of 40 men and 40 women followed from the womb into their mid-forties, the brain imaging study showed that exposure during fetal development to inflammation-promoting natural substances called cytokines, produced by mothers under negative stress, results in sex-associated differences in how the adult brain responds to negative stressful situations more than 45 years after birth, reports Jill M. Goldstein, founder and executive director of the Innovation Center on Sex Differences in Medicine
) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and her co-authors.