Sunday, January 2, 2011

The impact of depression during pregnancy

The cocktail of hormones cascading through depressed mothers' bodies may play an important role in the development of their unborn children's brains.

A higher level of depression in mothers during pregnancy was associated with higher levels of stress hormones in their children at birth, as well as with other neurological and behavioural differences, a University of Michigan-led study found.

"The two possibilities are that they are either more sensitive to stress and respond more

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