Cortisol awakening response in infants during the first six postnatal months and its relation to birth outcome

Dampening of the cortisol response to ha

Dampening of the cortisol response to handling at 3 months in human infants and its relation to sleep, circadian cortisol activity, and behavioral distress

✍ Mary C. Larson; Barbara Prudhomme White; Amy Cochran; Bonny Donzella; Megan Gunn 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 109 KB 👁 1 views

The decrease in responsiveness of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) system is marked over the first months of life. Seventy-eight healthy infants (44 girls), 7 to 15 weeks old, were given a laboratory mock physical examination. Salivary cortisol samples were collected pre-and postexami