depressed mothers or even with Schizophrenic mothers, they are not in synchrony. The baby is getting the message that they something wrong with it It's prefrontal cortex is not going to be tuned properly So that baby is going to develop a kind of depressive personality I'm here And what are you doing? Oh, yes The monkeys tell us more about the severe effects of infant deprivation The ones that were weird and isolation just don't behave normally when they're finally given a playmate They rarely touch and when they do the contact surprisingly vicious Children who are emotionally Inhibited will become this functional catalyst. They will have difficulty learning and will be more hostile and that starts right in the womb When the brain begins to be organized Genetically speaking each neuron is destined for a certain place where it will eventually end up Neurons brain cells are the information processing units of the brain and they make connections and they Organize themselves into functional networks Every second of prenatal life 50,000 new neurons are being produced every second There's not a machine in the world that can duplicate that You When you have all those neurons being produced they are very vulnerable And smallest smallest influence will make a huge sort of imprint and and those neurons and the neural circuits If there is chronic stress the woman is constantly obsessing about something or worrying about something More and more stress hormones like cortisone is being pushed into the bloodstream When you have too much cortisone in the brain itself Then the nerve cells will be interfered with in their passage and they may even be destroyed We were the first or amongst the first to glimpse inside at the brain becoming wired up With this new safe MRI technology or observing large-scale systems What we see in infants exposed to stress in utero is reduced brain volume reduced gray matter density So if you are less dense in those regions that suggests that there are less processors available We also see Reductions in hippocampal volume and increase in amygdala volume The hippocampus is critically important for learning and memory the amygdala is very important for emotional processing responding to emotional information And why we think those are particularly important during fetal development is first of all they begin to be developed very early Disruption in those areas is also associated with higher risk for emotional psychopathology or Neuroseciatric illness If the mother is upset if she has a very high level of neuro hormones if she has very high level of stress hormones all of those things will be passed to the baby There are all kinds of feelings coming from the mother all kinds anxieties Depression fears about everything Let's be clear mothers love their children so do fathers But they're these subtle unconscious things see that This mother is dealing with in her life say she may be in a tough marriage, but she gets pregnant Well Part of her may want the baby and part of her may really say gee. This is not a good time for a baby In fact, this is going to be very hard And a baby may get a lot of that That little bit of stuff is feeling all that without any way of communicating It just absorbs just hold it And that's what it gets for nine months What comes to mind is the Confusion If you can speak of that in a in a fetus Um developing human being Whose mother is conflicted Who Wants a child for us but is afraid of having a child Who wants to love but is Themselfs very afraid and very stressed So the kid is getting a very confusing message about the world That this world wants me this world doesn't want me