Stress and Your Body
Season 1
Ep 6. Stress and Growth: Echoes from the Womb
- TV-PG
- September 3, 2010
- 31 min
The first of two lectures on stress and child development takes you inside prenatal and postnatal life. Using two extraordinary examples, Professor Sapolsky reveals the ways a fetus can respond to the environmental stressors of its mother, and how different parenting styles can affect the stress levels of young children.