Climate Change and Disasters:
Potential Effects On Pregnant Women and Their Children

January 28-30, 2009
Douglas Mental Health University Institute

Day 2: Prenatal maternal stress and brain development.

What prenatally stressed rats may tell us about human anxiety:
behavior, limbic anatomy and gene expression

Adrienne K. Salm , Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
West Virginia University School of Medicine
Morgantown, WV 26506
asalm@hsc.wvu.edu

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