ReviewSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2020
Neurobiological changes during the peripartum period: implications for health and behavior.
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- Neural correlates of peripartum depression: a systematic review, meta-analysis and comparison to major depressive disorder.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of associations between hormone levels in hair and peripartum depression.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Pooled it
- Beyond 'Baby Brain': Memory and Sleep Health During Pregnancy-A Biopsychosocial Perspective.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Postpartum maternal bonding problems relate to aberrant neural processing of infant emotions: Results of an adapted fMRI emotional GoNoGo task.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Maternal peripartum stress: A new consensus-based definition.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Article
- Associations Between New Mothers' Neural Reward Response and Perceptions of Their Own Infant.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- State and trait late positive potential predict maternal mental health.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Fetal attachment and infant temperament: The mediating role of perinatal mental health.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Social Behavior and Neurogenesis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Neural reactivity to infant faces and trait mindfulness as prospective predictors of postpartum depressive symptoms.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Intrinsic resting-state connectivity and personal meaning across the transition to fatherhood.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Associations between attentional disengagement from distressed infant faces and cortisol reactivity are moderated by depressive symptoms in pregnant women: an eye-tracking study.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Article
- Sex differences in global metrics of brain size across the lifespan.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Improving maternal well-being: a matrescence education pilot study for new mothers.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2025Article
- Event-related potentials and behavioral correlates of emotional recognition memory in late pregnancy.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- Longitudinal investigation of neurobiological changes across pregnancy.Communications biology · 2025Article
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- Investigating Learning, Decision-Making, and Mental Health in Pregnancy: Insights From a UK Cohort Study.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Prenatal Stress and Maternal Role in Neurodevelopment.Annual review of developmental psychology · 2024Article
- Interoception in pregnancy: Implications for peripartum depression.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Review
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Abstract
Pregnancy and the transition to parenthood is an important period marked by dramatic neurobiological and psychosocial changes that may have implications for the health of women and offspring. Although human and non-human animal research suggests that the brain undergoes alterations during the peripartum period, these changes are poorly understood. Here, we review existing research, particularly human neuroimaging and psychophysiological research, to examine changes in brain structure and function during the peripartum period and discuss potential implications for the health of women and offspring. First, we discuss the potential causes of these changes across pregnancy, including physiological and psychosocial factors. Next, we discuss the evidence for structural and functional changes in the brain during pregnancy and into the postpartum period, noting the need for research conducted prospectively across human pregnancy. Finally, we propose potential models of individual differences in peripartum neurobiological changes (i.e. hypo-response, typical response, hyper-response) and emphasize the need to consider trajectories of change in addition to pre-existing factors that may predict maternal adjustment to parenthood. We suggest that the consideration of individual differences in neurobiological trajectories across pregnancy may contribute to a better understanding of risk for negative health and behavior outcomes for women and offspring.
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