Vivette Glover is a British

United Kingdom

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 Professor of Perinatal Psychobiology

Pre- and perinatal psychology

Prenatal and perinatal psychology is an interdisciplinary study of the foundations of health in body, mind, emotions and in enduring response patterns to life...

 at Imperial College London

Imperial College London

Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...

. She studies the effects of stress in pregnancy on the development of the fetus and child.

Vivette is also a Trustee of WAVE Trust

WAVE Trust

WAVE Trust was formed in 1996 and registered as an international educational charity with the Charity Commission for England and Wales under Number 1080189 in 1999. The charity is dedicated to reducing the key root causes of interpersonal violence: child neglect and maltreatment...

, a charity dedicated to reducing violence by tackling its root causes.

Vivette Glover is also married to Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover is a British philosopher known for his studies on ethics. He was educated at Tonbridge School, later going on to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was a fellow and tutor in philosophy at New College, Oxford. He currently teaches ethics at King's College London...

, a British philosopher known for his studies on bioethics

Selected publications

• Gitau R, Cameron A, Fisk NM, Glover V. (1998) Fetal exposure to maternal cortisol. Lancet 352, 707-708.
• Ashoka Prasad, RP Rampling, V Glover, M Sandler:Psychiatric morbidity and platelet monoamine oxidase activity in cancer patients- Psychiatry research, 1987
• Ashoka Prasad, V Glover, BL Goodwin, M Sandler, M Signy:Enhanced pressor sensitivity to oral tyramine challenge following high dose selegiline treatment - Psychopharmacology, 1988
• Littlewood, Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad, C Gibb, V Glover, M Sandler Psychiatric morbidity, platelet monoamine oxidase and tribulin output in headache. - Psychiatry Res, 1989
• Teixeira J, Fisk N, Glover V. (1999) Association between maternal anxiety in pregnancy and increased uterine artery resistance index: cohort based study. BMJ 318, 153-157.
• Taylor, A., Fisk, N.M., Glover, V. (2000) Mode of delivery and subsequent stress response. Lancet 355, 120
• Gitau R, Fisk NM, Cameron A, Teixeira J, Glover V. (2001). Fetal HPA stress responses to invasive procedures are independent of maternal responses. J Clin End Met. 86, 104-109
• O’Connor TG, Heron J, Golding J, Beveridge M, Glover V (2002) Maternal Antenatal Anxiety and Behavioural Problems in Early Childhood. Brit J Psychiat 180, 502-508
• O’Connor, T.G., Heron, J., Golding, J., & Glover, V., and the ALSPAC study team (2003). Maternal Antenatal Anxiety and Behavioural/Emotional Problems in Children: A Test of a Programming Hypothesis. J Child Psychol Psychiat 44,1025-1036
• Miller NM, Fisk NM, Modi N, Glover V (2005) Stress responses at birth: determinants of cord arterial cortisol and links with cortisol response in infancy.Bjog; 112(7): 921-6.
• Van den Bergh BR, Mulder EJ, Mennes M, Glover V (2005) Antenatal maternal anxiety and stress and the neurobehavioural development of the fetus and child: links and possible mechanisms. A review. Neurosci Biobehav Rev; 29(2): 237-58.
• Gitau R, Adams D, Fisk NM, Glover V (2005) Fetal plasma testosterone correlates positively with cortisol. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed; 90(2): F166-9.
• O'Connor TG, Ben-Shlomo Y, Heron J, Golding J, Adams D, Glover V (2005) Prenatal Anxiety Predicts Individual Differences in Cortisol in Pre-Adolescent ChildrenBiol Psychiatry ; 58:211-217.
• Glover V, Miles R , Matta S, Modi N, Stevenson J. (2005) Glucocorticoid exposure in preterm babies predicts saliva cortisol response to immunisation at 4 months. Ped Res ; 58(6):1233-1237