Prenatal Exposure to Stress, Alterations in Fetal Brain Development Associated with Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
Fetal brain development is altered by elevated maternal distress and has adverse infant social-emotional and cognitive outcomes.
Fetal brain development is altered by elevated maternal distress and has adverse infant social-emotional and cognitive outcomes.
Intravenous ketamine at delivery reduced risk for postpartum depression; however, only in women at high risk for PPD.
We are now recruiting for a study using a novel app using behavioral activation to treat depression during pregnancy.
In terms of the efficacy of bright light therapy for depression during pregnancy, the jury is still out.
Infants exposed to maternal depression during pregnancy had significantly larger subcortical grey matter volumes and smaller midbrain volumes.
Neuroimaging studies indicate that exposure to antenatal depression may determine risk for later neuropsychiatric illness in the child.
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