A new study published in Developmental Neuroscience suggests that teaching children to be independent and interact with their environment could help soften or reduce the negative effects of stress experienced during pregnancy.
Researchers at City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and Queens College studied children exposed in utero to Superstorm Sandy in 2012 as a model of prenatal stress caused by a natural disaster. The study included a small pilot sample of 11 children with prenatal exposure and 23 without.
