BACKGROUND: Parental depression is associated with an increased risk of psychiatric
disorder in offspring, although outcomes vary. At present relatively little is known about how …

Background This article examines associations betweenDSM-IVdepressive disorders, their
natural course, other psychopathology, and parental major depression in a community …

Depression is known to be influenced by psychosocial stressors. For mothers with recurrent
depressive illness, the presence of psychopathology in their children may have important …

BackgroundOffspring of mothers with depression are at heightened risk of psychiatric
disorder. Many mothers with depression have comorbid psychopathology. How these co …

Background To assess whether the age‐of‐onset or the recurrence of parents' major
depressive disorder (MDD), measured prospectively in a longitudinal birth cohort study …

The Impact of Parental Depression on Offspring........................................... 444 Impact of
Parental Depression in Infants and Preschool-Aged Children …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between both parental and offspring depression
and the general medical problems of a sample of offspring at high and low risk for …

In this chapter we operationalize familial risk for depression as having at least one parent
with a clinical diagnosis of depression during the child's lifetime. We briefly review the …

The objectives of this paper were twofold. First, to evaluate in a community sample the age
of onset of major depression in adolescents and young adults with and without parental …

Objective Recent findings suggest that remissions of maternal depression are associated
with decrease in offspring psychopathology. Little is known about the offspring effects of …