Background: Meta-analyses suggest an increased prevalence of paternal depression during
the perinatal period of around 10%. The relationship between paternal and maternal …

Maternal internalizing symptoms during pregnancy, specifically depression and/or anxiety,
are commonly linked to negative affectivity (NA) in infant offspring. These links are …

Background The role of maternal personality and perceived social support for peripartum
changes in psychopathological symptoms remains unresolved. Methods In a regional …

Background Maternal prenatal stress associates with infant developmental outcomes, but
the mechanisms underlying this association are not fully understood. Alterations in the …

Men often experience depressive symptoms during the transition to parenthood, but there is
a lack of synthesized knowledge of instruments used to identify such symptoms. The aim of …

Background Maternal depression and anxiety may endanger well-being of both mother and
child. We investigated the efficacy of probiotics and/or fish oil (FO) in modifying pre-and …

Maternal prenatal cortisol levels have been inconsistently associated with self-reports of
prenatal psychological distress (PD). Previous research has linked hair cortisol …

Maternal psychological distress during pregnancy (PPD) 1 has been associated with
changes in offspring amygdalar and hippocampal volumes. Studies on child amygdalae …

Background The most common mental disorders in women during the perinatal (antenatal
and postnatal) period are depressive syndromes and anxiety syndromes. The global …

Background Few studies explored trajectories of depressive symptoms from early pregnancy
and covered the whole perinatal period. This study aimed to explore the trajectories of …