Being pregnant is one of the best feelings for a mother but it is crucial for the women to take special care during the pregnancy. Pregnant women should stress during pregnancy as it may harm your baby's brain. A new study claim stress during pregnancy is not good for the unborn child and remaining stress-free during this period helps the baby’s brain development.
According to the study presented at a meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Boston, Massachusetts, a mother's stress during pregnancy changes neural connectivity in the brain of her unborn child. Researcher Moriah Thomason of Wayne State University in the US said,"We have demonstrated what has long been theorised, but not yet observed in a human, which is that the stress of a mother during her pregnancy is reflected in connectional properties of her child's developing brain. He further said, Research in newborns and older children to understand prenatal influences has been confounded by the postnatal environment, But recent advancements in foetal imaging allowed the researchers to gain insight into a critical time period in brain development never previously accessible.
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The reseacher found that mothers reporting high stress had foetuses with a reduced efficiency in how their neural functional systems are organised.
