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Prenatal maternal stress, fetal programming, and mechanisms underlying later psychopathology—A global perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2018

Vivette Glover ,
Kieran J O'Donnell ,
Thomas G O'Connor  and
Jane Fisher
Vivette Glover*
Affiliation:
Imperial College London
Kieran J O'Donnell
Affiliation:
McGill University Canadian Institute For Advanced Research
Thomas G O'Connor
Affiliation:
University of Rochester Medical Center
Jane Fisher
Affiliation:
Monash University
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Vivette Glover, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London W12 ONN, UK; E-mail: v.glover@imperial.ac.uk.
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Abstract

There is clear evidence that the mother's stress, anxiety, or depression during pregnancy can alter the development of her fetus and her child, with an increased risk for later psychopathology. We are starting to understand some of the underlying mechanisms including the role of the placenta, gene–environment interactions, epigenetics, and specific systems including the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis and cytokines. In this review we also consider how these effects may be different, and potentially exacerbated, in different parts of the world. There can be many reasons for elevated prenatal stress, as in communities at war. There may be raised pregnancy-specific anxiety with high levels of maternal and infant death. There can be raised interpersonal violence (in Afghanistan 90.2% of women thought that “wife beating” was justified compared with 2.0% in Argentina). There may be interactions with nutritional deficiencies or with extremes of temperature. Prenatal stress alters the microbiome, and this can differ in different countries. Genetic differences in different ethnic groups may make some more vulnerable or more resilient to the effects of prenatal stress on child neurodevelopment. Most research on these questions has been in predominantly Caucasian samples from high-income countries. It is now time to understand more about prenatal stress and psychopathology, and the role of both social and biological differences, in the rest of the world.

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