Altered environmental perception by parental stress and depression vulnerability: impact on mothers and offspring
Renata L. Alves, Camila Cabral Portugal, Igor Moreira Lopes, Pedro Oliveira, Cecília Juliana Alves, Fernando Barbosa, Teresa Summavielle, Ana Magalhães
The paper investigates how maternal stress affects maternal behavior and offspring cognition in rats with different depression vulnerability, finding differential impacts on oxytocin levels and cognitive outcomes.
bioRxiv · Feb 23, 2021 · PreprintNeuroscience