The timing of prenatal exposure to maternal cortisol and psychosocial stress is associated with human infant cognitive development.

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Published in Child Dev on March 24, 2010

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Elysia P Davis1, Curt A Sandman

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1: University of California, Irvine, USA. edavis@uci.edu

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