Residential surrounding greenness, traffic exposure and maternal stress as determinants of neurocognitive and neurobehavioural development during the first decade of life in twins and triplets Hasselt University
Surrounding greenness at home, air pollution and maternal stress have been related to reduction of behavioural problems and improvement of cognitive development, but little is known about mechanism(s) underlying such associations. We hypothesize that exposure to residential greenness might affect in utero stress conditions, both social, as maternal perceived stress, as well as biological stress (inflammation) which both might play a role in ...