Positive mental health is an essential component of overall health and well-being. However, research in this area has been relatively neglected. This study used a longitudinal dataset to investigate the impact of maternal positive emotions during pregnancy on brain structure and function in 7.5-year...
Editorial: Focus on maternal mental health during pregnancy and after childbirthdoi:10.3389/fgwh.2024.1393215Fitch, Margaret I.Hynie, MichaelaFrontiers in Global Women's Health
We assessed maternal IL-6 during pregnancy, functional magnetic resonance imaging acquired in neonates, and working memory (an important component of executive function) at 2 years of age. Functional connectivity within and between multiple neonatal brain networks can be modeled to estimate maternal IL...
A myriad of maternal factors (including pre-existing conditions, environmental exposures, and genetic predisposition) are known to influence pregnancy, childbirth, and the health of both the mother and her child during pregnancy and long after birth. Collectively, these issues represent a serious and...
In contrast, more recent stress was associated with faster pace of aging between neuroimaging sessions, independent of maternal depression during pregnancy. Meaning These results suggest that maternal mental health during pregnancy may have a nonprogressive early association with offspring brain age that ...
Maternal Brain Death During PregnancyMedical and Ethical Issues David R. Field, MD; Elena A. Gates, MD; Robert K. Creasy, MD; et al Albert R. Jonsen, PhD; Russell K. Laros Jr, MD Author Affiliations JAMA. 1988;260(6):816-822. doi:10.1001/jama.1988.03410060086033 Full...
These conditions, however, did not include antecedents of mental health illness. The main mental health distress outcomes were assessed using two indicators: women’s self-assessment of their psychological health during the pregnancy, and two depressive symptoms during two consecutive weeks in pregnancy...
Emerging evidence suggests an association between maternal hypertension during pregnancy and mental health in the offspring. However, less is known about the role of hypertensive pregnancy in behavioral symptoms and brain structures of the offspring as well as in their developmental changes. Here, we ...
The experience of pregnancy and childbirth transforms the lives of mothers and their families. As it may be anticipated, a large number of medical and surgical complications in the pregnant mother may affect development of the fetus and health of the newborn infant. Since the early nineteenth cen...
Possible mechanisms by which maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) programs offspring mental disorders in late childhood are not fully clarified. To assess the association between maternal BMI and mental health problems at 11 years old, we us