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2003 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Organized infant behavior contributes to good interactions in depressed mothers.
"The interactions of 3-month-old infants and their depressed mothers were classified as intrusive, withdrawn or good interactions. Analyses of retrospective data suggested that all depressed groups scored higher on depression (CES-D) and anxiety (STAI) scales and had similarly elevated cortisol, norepinephrine and epinephrine during pregnancy. The depressed mothers and their newborns also had greater relative right frontal EEG activation," researchers in the United States report.
"Despite these group similarities, the infants of the 'good interaction' mothers did not show high amounts of indeterminate sleep and they received better scores on the Brazelton scale," said T. Field and colleagues, University of Miami, School of Medicine.
"The more organized behaviors of these newborns may have ...