ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2017
Postpartum depressive symptoms moderate the link between mothers' neural response to positive faces in reward and social regions and observed caregiving.
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- Structural, functional, and metabolic signatures of postpartum depression: A systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Psychedelic therapy and postpartum depression: priorities and prospects.Therapeutic advances in psychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Engage & connect psychotherapy improves social reward responsivity and reduces postpartum depression.Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research · 2025Article
- Bridging Neurobiological Insights and Clinical Biomarkers in Postpartum Depression: A Narrative Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Postpartum scarcity-adversity inflicts sex-specific cerebellar adaptations and reward behaviors in adolescence.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2023Article
- Preconception interpersonal personality features predict postpartum maternal parenting behaviors.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2023Article
- Estradiol withdrawal following a hormone simulated pregnancy induces deficits in affective behaviors and increases ∆FosB in D1 and D2 neurons in the nucleus accumbens core in mice.Hormones and behavior · 2023Article
- Postpartum scarcity-adversity disrupts maternal behavior and induces a hypodopaminergic state in the rat dam and adult female offspring.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Article
- The Prolactin Family of Hormones as Regulators of Maternal Mood and Behavior.Frontiers in global women's health · 2021Review
- Cerebral Regional Homogeneity Alternation of Pregnant Women With Antenatal Depression During the Pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Postpartum Depression Is Associated With Altered Neural Connectivity Between Affective and Mentalizing Regions During Mother-Infant Interactions.Frontiers in global women's health · 2021Article
- Adaptations in reward-related behaviors and mesolimbic dopamine function during motherhood and the postpartum period.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2020Review
- Altered Spontaneous Neural Activity in Peripartum Depression: A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- The maternal reward system in postpartum depression.Archives of women's mental health · 2019Review
- Neural processing of the own child's facial emotions in mothers with a history of early life maltreatment.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2019Article
- A Transactional Model of Infant Still-Face Response and Maternal Behavior During the First Year.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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Postpartum depression may disrupt socio-affective neural circuitry and compromise provision of positive parenting. Although work has evaluated how parental response to negative stimuli is related to caregiving, research is needed to examine how depressive symptoms during the postpartum period may be related to neural response to positive stimuli, especially positive faces, given depression's association with biased processing of positive faces. The current study examined the association between neural response to adult happy faces and observations of maternal caregiving and the moderating role of postpartum depression, in a sample of 18- to 22-year old mothers (n = 70) assessed at 17 weeks (s.d. = 4.7 weeks) postpartum. Positive caregiving was associated with greater precuneus and occipital response to positive faces among mothers with lower depressive symptoms, but not for those with higher symptoms. For mothers with higher depressive symptoms, greater ventral and dorsal striatal response to positive faces was associated with more positive caregiving, whereas the opposite pattern emerged for mothers with lower symptoms. There was no association between negative caregiving and neural response to positive faces or negative faces. Processing of positive stimuli may be an important prognostic target in mothers with depressive symptoms, given its link with healthy caregiving behaviors.
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