Main goal: To develop a comprehensive model of the interactions between women’s stress and reproductive physiology in natural contexts (i.e. non-clinical) across reproductive transitions and to evaluate the effects of those interactions on women’s reproductive outcomes
Main goal: To develop appropriate methods for the use of cortisol as a physiologic marker of stress in women of reproductive age
Main goal: To assess the effects of periconceptional maternal stress (+/- 6 weeks from conception) on the development and activity of the HPA and HPG axes in children