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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Maternal behaviour"”.
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Early environments and neurobehavioural programming: Therapeutic actions of antidepressants. Neurobehavioural programming during development.
… decades of research on stress and its impact on behaviour, it is now widely accepted that selective psycho-pathologies, in particular clinical depression are more prevalent in humans with prior history of life-stress events. Interest in stress has led to questions about how it might affect the …
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Maternal health behaviours: the development and feasibility evaluation of a mindfulness-based behaviour change intervention for pregnant women
Background: Maternal health behaviours are associated with the likelihood of pregnancy complications, and with infants’ immediate and lifetime outcomes. Aim: The overarching aim was to investigate whether mindfulness training might have any potential as the basis of a maternal behaviour change …
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Thermoregulation, hibernation and reproduction in the South African hedgehog Erinaceus frontalis A. Smith
… activity became increasingly higher. Aspects of maternal behaviour, growth and development of young from birth to weaning, and dispersal were recorded during three 24-hour observation sessions. The young of the two females studied, spent less time at huddling and suckling and more time alone in …
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Negotiating femininity, ethnicity and history : representations of Ruth First in South African struggle narratives
… gender, political activism, Jewishness, maternal behaviour and the role of the individual in the community. With reference to her non-fiction writing, autobiographical accounts by her daughters and her contemporaries, photographic exhibitions and transcriptions of amnesty hearings to the …