Anticipating the long-term neurodevelopmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on newborns and infants: A call for research and preventive policy

It is estimated that 116 million children were born worldwide in the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the critical importance of early life for neurodevelopment, and evidence suggesting that prenatal maternal stress and early childhood adversity negatively impact neurodevelopment, i...

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Autores principales: McDonald, André J., Mew, Emma J., Hawley, Nicola L., Lowe, Sarah R.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8417611/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34514459
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100213
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description It is estimated that 116 million children were born worldwide in the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the critical importance of early life for neurodevelopment, and evidence suggesting that prenatal maternal stress and early childhood adversity negatively impact neurodevelopment, it is alarming that many pregnant women and new mothers are experiencing high levels of pandemic-related stress. Research and proactive mental health policy is needed to minimize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the future mental health of a global cohort of newborns and infants.
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spelling pubmed-84176112021-09-07 Anticipating the long-term neurodevelopmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on newborns and infants: A call for research and preventive policy McDonald, André J. Mew, Emma J. Hawley, Nicola L. Lowe, Sarah R. J Affect Disord Rep Correspondence It is estimated that 116 million children were born worldwide in the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the critical importance of early life for neurodevelopment, and evidence suggesting that prenatal maternal stress and early childhood adversity negatively impact neurodevelopment, it is alarming that many pregnant women and new mothers are experiencing high levels of pandemic-related stress. Research and proactive mental health policy is needed to minimize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the future mental health of a global cohort of newborns and infants. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021-12 2021-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8417611/ /pubmed/34514459 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100213 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Anticipating the long-term neurodevelopmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on newborns and infants: A call for research and preventive policy
title Anticipating the long-term neurodevelopmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on newborns and infants: A call for research and preventive policy
title_full Anticipating the long-term neurodevelopmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on newborns and infants: A call for research and preventive policy
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title_full_unstemmed Anticipating the long-term neurodevelopmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on newborns and infants: A call for research and preventive policy
title_short Anticipating the long-term neurodevelopmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on newborns and infants: A call for research and preventive policy
title_sort anticipating the long-term neurodevelopmental impact of the covid-19 pandemic on newborns and infants: a call for research and preventive policy
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