Sentences with phrase «suggests depression during pregnancy»

Previous work from a team at Imperial College London suggests depression during pregnancy may affect the development of the baby while in the womb, as well as affecting bonding between mother and child after birth.

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Research suggests that between 10 % and 20 % of pregnant women experience a new episode of depression during pregnancy, which is called antepartum depression.

Emerging research suggests that 1 in 10 new fathers may experience depression during or after pregnancy.

Writing in 2014 in the European Journal of Neuroscience, Leuner and colleagues reported that in rats with symptoms of postpartum depression (induced by stress during pregnancy, a major risk factor for postpartum depression in women), nerve cells in the nucleus accumbens atrophied and showed fewer protrusions called dendritic spines — suggesting weaker connections to surrounding nerve cells compared with healthy rats.

These findings suggest it may eventually be possible to develop a test to predict postpartum depression and provide preventive treatment during pregnancy.

This study suggested that depression during pregnancy and in the six months after childbirth was common, affecting up to 1 in 5 women at some point in that period.