Depression is the most frequent psychiatric disorder and has long-term, compromising
effects on the mother-infant relationship and the child's development. The infant …

Literature is reviewed demonstrating the impact of maternal depression on early infant
interactions and development. Infants of depressed mothers (a) develop a depressed mood …

The negative impact of postpartum depression on the mother‐infant relationship and infant
development more generally has been well documented. Compared to infants of …

Our recent research suggests that:(1) maternal depression negatively affects infants as early
as the neonatal period, implicating prenatal effects of maternal depression;(2) as early as …

Abstract review studies showing that infants respond in specific and characteristic ways to
depressed maternal affect, and that these effects carry over to situations in which mothers no …

Objective: Maternal depression is a consistent and well-replicated risk factor for child
psychopathology. The authors examined the changes in psychiatric symptoms and global …

Maternal postpartum depression (PPD) exerts long-term negative effects on infants; yet the
mechanisms by which PPD disrupts emotional development are not fully clear. Utilizing an …

Infants of mothers who remain depressed for 1 year after birth have a distinct profile of
behavioral, physiologic, and biochemical dysregulation. Their mothers also have a distinct …

Infants as young as 3 months are able to detect depression in their mothers. Depressed
mothers are sufficiently different from nondepressed mothers in affect and interaction that the …

In communities with risk factors such as poverty, significant numbers of women are
chronically depressed. For this group, maternal depression appears to affect prenatal …