Evidence from both human and preclinical studies seems to indicate that maternal smoking, alcohol drinking, or other drug use during pregnancy can affect offspring outcomes. It also suggests that maternal substance use during pregnancy is a major ...

High levels of stress during pregnancy are associated with a number of adverse psychological and physiological outcomes for mother and child. These effects seem to be transmitted in part by one of the major stress-responsive systems, namely the ...

Despite huge advances in obstetric management and technology in recent decades, there has not been an accompanying decrease in patients’ perception of risk during pregnancy. The aim of this paper is to examine the context of risk perception in pregnancy ...

Very preterm birth has become more frequent during the past decades due to progress in reproductive medicine, more frequent indicated preterm births due to maternal illnesses, and increasing maternal age. Moreover, survival rates of very preterm children ...

The English & Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study follows children who spent their first years of life in extremely depriving Romanian institutions before they were adopted by families in the UK. The ERA study constitutes a “natural experiment” that allows the ...

This issue of the news contains an invitation to the World Psychological Forum 2015 in the Czech Republic, a summary of recent activities from the Slovenian Psychologists’ Association, and, from the UK, an update on the upcoming conference of the British ...