Vivette Glover

Vivette Glover was born in 1942 at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London.

She attended St Paul's Girls School and Somerville College, Oxford. She is Professor of Perinatal Psychobiology at Imperial College London. She now studies the effects of stress in pregnancy on the development of the fetus and child.

She is married to Jonathan Glover, a top moral philosopher. She is mother to three children and a grandmother to one.

elected 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