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...exact mechanisms by which antenatal depression may affect a child's future behavior are hazy, but researchers think they could have to do with the environment inside the womb and its long-lasting impact on the growing fetus - a process known as "fetal programming." Maternal influences such as alcohol or drug use, poor nutrition and stress are known to affect the level of hormones in the mother's body. It is thought that biochemical changes in the uterus have an impact on the baby's development, affecting its birth weight and even its future risk of disease, among other things...
...stop beside the Peabody Terrace building sign, Washington said he and the passenger noticed a man lying by a trash can on the walkway. Washington and the passenger left the shuttle and approached the body, asking the man, who was curled up on his right side in a fetal position, if he was okay...
...Angel Face (1952), essentially a feature-length rendition of the Ophelia mad scene. As Diane, a young Englishwoman in Southern California, she's in hysterics when Mitchum first sees her (they exchange hard slaps); later she toys portentously with chess pieces and glowers at us out of a fetal position. By the end Diane has been the agent of two gruesome car crashes and four deaths. "I don't pretend to know what goes on behind that pretty little face of yours," Mitchum tells her, "and I don't want to." Yet for the length of the movie he denies...
...South African victim of human trafficking, this was the endgame. On a freezing night last July, Sindiswa, 17, lay curled in a fetal position in bed No. 7 of a state-run hospice in central Bloemfontein. Well-used fly strips hung between fluorescent lights, pale blue paint flaked off the walls, and fresh blood stained her sheets, the rusty bedpost and the linoleum floor. Sindiswa had full-blown AIDS and tuberculosis, and she was three months pregnant. Sweat poured from her forehead as she whispered her story through parched lips covered with sores. A few blocks away, the roars...
...know that the greatest vulnerability [to addiction] occurs when adolescents are exposed," says Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which funded the study. "Would you see the same results in adolescent [mice]? And what happens during fetal exposure...