ArticleArchives of women's mental health2012
Decreased startle modulation during anticipation in the postpartum period in comparison to late pregnancy.
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- Stress in pregnancy - Implications for fetal BDNF in amniotic fluid at birth.Neurobiology of stress · 2024Article
- Enduring impact of childhood adversity: Affective modulation of acoustic startle response during pregnancy and postpartum.Physiology & behavior · 2023Article
- Dissociable impact of childhood trauma and deployment trauma on affective modulation of startle.Neurobiology of stress · 2021Article
- Startling Differences: Using the Acoustic Startle Response to Study Sex Differences and Neurosteroids in Affective Disorders.Current psychiatry reports · 2018Review
- Different patterns of attentional bias in antenatal and postpartum depression.Brain and behavior · 2017Article
- Emotional anticipation after delivery - a longitudinal neuroimaging study of the postpartum period.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Psychophysiology and posttraumatic stress disorder symptom profile in pregnant African-American women with trauma exposure.Archives of women's mental health · 2015Article
- Emotion Reactivity Is Increased 4-6 Weeks Postpartum in Healthy Women: A Longitudinal fMRI Study.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
Knowledge about healthy women’s psychophysiological adaptations during the large neuroendocrine changes of pregnancy and childbirth is essential in order to understand why these events have the potential to disrupt mental health in vulnerable individuals. This study aimed to compare startle response modulation, an objective psychophysiological measure demonstrated to be influenced by anxiety and depression, longitudinally across late pregnancy and the postpartum period. The acoustic startle response modulation was assessed during anticipation of affective images and during image viewing in 31 healthy women during gestational weeks 36–39 and again at 4 to 6 weeks postpartum. No startle modulation by affective images was observed at either time point. Significant modulation during anticipation stimuli was found at pregnancy assessment but was reduced in the postpartum period. The women rated the unpleasant images more negative and more arousing and the pleasant images more positive at the postpartum assessment. Self-reported anxiety and depressive symptoms did not change between assessments. The observed postpartum decrease in modulation of startle by anticipation suggests a relatively deactivated defense system in the postpartum period.
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