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  On the occasion of the recent institutional presentation organized by PSAF at the European Parliament headquarters in Strasbourg, the scientific community welcomed with great interest the evolution of a cutting-edge research project redefining the impact of trauma during pregnancy. This scientific journey has been consolidated through two fundamental publications that connect knowledge across Africa, Europe, and the international landscape, elevating clinical research into a tool for global political advocacy. The first study, entitled “ Neuroscience and New Research Perspectives on Violence as a Risk Factor in Pregnancy ” (2024), laid the foundation by analyzing violence as a risk factor for fetal brain development and the related neuro-psycho-postural alterations. This was followed by a recent scientific in-depth study published in the prestigious journal Archive of Psychology, Neurology and Psychiatry (published by Vita e Pensiero – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), en...

  Dr. Hamida Ouled Slimane Abstract The intervention proposes to highlight how violence suffered by pregnant women can affect children even before birth and that it can be the cause of changes in the mother's stress response systems, increasing cortisol hormone levels, which in turn could increase cortisol levels in the fetus, determining cognitive and neurological alterations. The early changes in brain structures, in fact, could explain why children whose mothers experience high levels of stress due to trauma and domestic violence during pregnancy, have greater chances of developing learning disorders, relational disorders and psychological and/or psychiatric problems in childhood or elder age. In light of this it becomes fundamental and necessary to act quickly in order to help women escape violence in pregnancy, being an effective way to support a healthy brain development in the unborn child and reduce the risk of relational, psychological and psychiatric problems. The period ...