Perinatal depression: Challenges and opportunities

RK Dagher, HE Bruckheim, LJ Colpe… - Journal of Women's …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Perinatal depression (PND) is a major depressive episode during pregnancy or within 4
weeks after childbirth up to a year. Risk factors for PND include stressful life events, history …

Pregnancy as a period of risk, adaptation, and resilience for mothers and infants

EP Davis, AJ Narayan - Development and psychopathology, 2020 - cambridge.org
The pregnancy period represents a unique window of opportunity to identify risks to both the
fetus and mother and to deter the intergenerational transmission of adversity and mental …

Social connectedness as a determinant of mental health: A scoping review

PJ Wickramaratne, T Yangchen, L Lepow, BG Patra… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Public health and epidemiologic research have established that social connectedness
promotes overall health. Yet there have been no recent reviews of findings from research …

Adverse childhood experiences and maternal anxiety and depression: a meta-analysis

N Racine, C Devereaux, JE Cooke, R Eirich, J Zhu… - BMC psychiatry, 2021 - Springer
Background It has been proposed that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can put
women at risk for mental illness in the pregnancy and postpartum periods. While some …

Family function fully mediates the relationship between social support and perinatal depression in rural Southwest China

Y Huang, Y Liu, Y Wang, D Liu - BMC psychiatry, 2021 - Springer
Background Perinatal depression is the most common complication of gestation and
childbearing affecting women and their families, and good social support and family function …

A unified model of the biology of peripartum depression

G Levin, T Ein-Dor - Translational Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Peripartum depression (PPD) is a prevalent and debilitating disorder that adversely affects
the development of mothers and infants. Recently, there has been a plea for increased …

Adverse childhood experiences, the risk of pregnancy complications and adverse pregnancy outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

A Mamun, T Biswas, J Scott, PD Sly, HD McIntyre… - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have a profound negative impact on
health. However, the strength of the association between ACEs and pregnancy …

Maternal social support, depression and emotional availability in early mother-infant interaction: Findings from a pregnancy cohort

KK MacMillan, AJ Lewis, SJ Watson, D Bourke… - Journal of Affective …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Social support theory suggests that parental social support may influence the
nature of early parenting behaviours and specifically the mother-infant relationship. This …

The anxious aspects of insecure attachment styles are associated with depression either in pregnancy or in the postpartum period

E Bianciardi, C Vito, S Betrò, A De Stefano… - Annals of general …, 2020 - Springer
Background Perinatal depression (PND) is a major complication of pregnancy and many risk
factors have been associated with its development both during pregnancy and postpartum …

Promoting brain health through physical activity among adults exposed to early life adversity: Potential mechanisms and theoretical framework

SD Donofry, CM Stillman, JL Hanson… - Neuroscience & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Adverse childhood experiences such as abuse, neglect, and poverty, profoundly alter
neurobehavioral development in a manner that negatively impacts health across the …