The Way We Regulate Stress Starts Before Birth

The Way We Regulate Stress Starts Before Birth

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Stress before Birth, Family Meals and Mental Health, Fence Effects

Episode: Stress before Birth, Family Meals and Mental Health, Fence Effects

  • Jul 13, 2022 6:00 am
  • 19:18 mins

The way you deal with stress in your life today may date back to the time you spent in your mother’s womb and how much stress she was under while she carried you. Neuroscientist Jill Goldstein–a professor of psychiatry and medicine at Harvard Medical School and founder and executive director of the Innovation Center on Sex Differences in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital–has spent her career trying to understand why. (Segment produced by Martha)