"The role of prenatal stress as a pathway to personality disorder: Longitudinal birth cohort study": Comment (McAlpine, 2020)

Tavares Amanda McAlpine Lynsey.

The British Journal of Psychiatry 2020;217(6): 727.

Comments on an article by R. Brannigan et al. (see record 2020-28410-003). Brannigan et al. describe their examination of the relationship between self-reported maternal stress during pregnancy, and the subsequent development of personality disorder in the offspring. We would like to raise several points about the study and the conclusions drawn by the authors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)