In search of neural endophenotypes of postpartum psychopathology and disrupted maternal caregiving

EL Moses‐Kolko, MS Horner… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This is a selective review that provides the context for the study of perinatal affective disorder
mechanisms and outlines directions for future research. We integrate existing literature …

The neurobiology of postpartum anxiety and depression

JL Pawluski, JS Lonstein, AS Fleming - Trends in neurosciences, 2017 - cell.com
Ten to twenty percent of postpartum women experience anxiety or depressive disorders,
which can have detrimental effects on the mother, child, and family. Little is known about the …

Neural dysfunction in postpartum depression: an fMRI pilot study

ME Silverman, H Loudon, M Safier, X Protopopescu… - CNS …, 2007 - cambridge.org
Introduction: With∼ 4 million births each year in the United States, an estimated 760,000
women annually suffer from a clinically significant postpartum depressive illness. Yet even …

Annual research review: All mothers are not created equal: Neural and psychobiological perspectives on mothering and the importance of individual differences

J Barrett, AS Fleming - Journal of Child Psychology and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Quality of mothering relies on the integrity of multiple physiological and behavioral systems
and on two maternal factors, one proximal and one distal, that have a great impact on how a …

Dissecting maternal care: Patterns of maternal parenting in a prospective cohort study

E Unternaehrer, KT Cost… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Parental care has a strong impact on neurodevelopment and mental health in the offspring.
Although numerous animal studies have revealed that the parental brain is a highly complex …

The consequences of early‐life adversity: neurobiological, behavioural and epigenetic adaptations

S Maccari, HJ Krugers… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
During the perinatal period, the brain is particularly sensitive to remodelling by
environmental factors. Adverse early‐life experiences, such as stress exposure or …

Postpartum depression and brain response to infants: Differential amygdala response and connectivity

KE Wonch, CB de Medeiros, JA Barrett… - Social …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Recent evidence suggests that postpartum depression is associated with reduced amygdala
(AMY) response to negative stimuli. However, given the anhedonic features of PPD, it is …

Disrupted posterior cingulate–amygdala connectivity in postpartum depressed women as measured with resting BOLD fMRI

HW Chase, EL Moses-Kolko, C Zevallos… - Social cognitive and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Disengagement of emotion regulation circuits was previously shown in depressed mothers
and was hypothesized to underlie the impaired maternal–infant sensitivity described in …

A face a mother could love: depression-related maternal neural responses to infant emotion faces

HK Laurent, JC Ablow - Social neuroscience, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Depressed mothers show negatively biased responses to their infants' emotional bids,
perhaps due to faulty processing of infant cues. This study is the first to examine depression …

The maternal brain and its plasticity in humans

P Kim, L Strathearn, JE Swain - Hormones and behavior, 2016 - Elsevier
This article is part of a Special Issue “Parental Care”. Early mother–infant relationships play
important roles in infants' optimal development. New mothers undergo neurobiological …