Prenatal diet and children’s trajectories of hyperactivity-inattention and conduct problems from 3 to 8 years: The EDEN mother-child cohort

Pang et al. (2020) investigated whether types of milk feeding and mode of breastmilk feeding influences child cognition. This study collected the data from the GUSTO (Growing Up in Singapore Toward Healthy Outcomes) cohort, which repeatedly assessed the healthy children on their neurodevelopment at 6 to 54 months. Results showed that compared to infants that […]

This 2019 review focuses on the interaction between stress-induced adaptations (such as the immune system, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, the autonomic nervous system) and the microbiota since this relationship may contribute to mental illnesses/disorders/behaviors/experiences in women during pregnancy and postpartum. Redpath et al. explain that when the stress response activates the HPA axis and dysregulates […]