Heightened maternal stress during pregnancy is associated with atypical brain development
and an elevated risk for psychopathology in offspring. Supportive environments during early …

Women that become mothers face notable physiological adaptations during this life-period.
Neuroimaging studies of the last decade have provided grounded evidence that women's …

Objective To assess whether Family Integrated Care (FICare) in the neonatal intensive care
unit improves maternal chronic physiological stress and child behavior at 18 months of …

Postpartum adversity is among the strongest predictors for the emergence of postpartum
depression (PPD) in humans and a translational risk factor employed in rodent models …

Early childhood and pregnancy are two sensitive periods of heightened immune plasticity,
when exposure to adversity may disproportionately increase health risks. However, we need …

Background Pregnancy-related anxiety and depression has received considerable attention
worldwide. Mental health problems in pregnant women already since early weeks of …

Reducing the rate of over‐representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in
out‐of‐home care (OOHC) is a key Closing the Gap target committed to by all Australian …

Attachment‐based interventions are important for improving parent‐child outcomes. These
interventions must be scaled and made available to under‐resourced communities. An …

Background The onset of mental illness such as depression and anxiety disorders in
pregnancy and postpartum period is common. The coronavirus induced disease 2019 …

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a heterogeneous mood disorder and the most frequent
psychiatric complication of the postnatal period. Given its potential long-lasting …