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Using a Murine Model of Psychosocial Stress in Pregnancy as a Translationally Relevant Paradigm for Psychiatric Disorders in Mothers and Infants
Published on: June 13, 2021
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Correction: Maternal prenatal psychological distress and vitamin intake with children's neurocognitive development
Derrick Ssewanyana1,2, Julia A Knight2,3, Stephen G Matthews1,4,5,6,7
1Alliance for Human Development, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Pediatric Research
|April 12, 2022
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