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Two studies: depression may impact infant's cortisol levels.(Obstetrics)
ORLANDO, FLA. -- Pre- and postnatal depression in women influences neuroendocrine function in their infants, reported Laura R. Stround, Ph.D., at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society.
Prenatal depression, reported in approximately 10% of all pregnant women, has been linked with deficits in infants such as attenuated response to social stimuli, excessive crying, increased sleep problems, and lower vagal tone.
Moreover, women with prenatal depression are also at increased risk for postnatal depression, which has also been linked to adverse effects in infants. Little is known about the influence of pre- and early postnatal depression on infant neuroendocrine functioning, commented Dr. Stroud of Brown University, Providence, R.I.
In the first of two studies, cortisol responses to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Network Neurobehavioral Scale (NNNS) were measured in 1- to 2-day-old newborns of 49 nondepressed mothers and 13 mothers who scored high for depression (greater than 11) on the Beck Depression Inventory before their deliveries took place.
Baseline and poststress cortisol responses were significantly attenuated among the infants of the depressed mothers, compared ...
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