1. Pre- and Post-Natal Maternal Depressive Symptoms in Relation with Infant Frontal Function, Connectivity, and Behaviors
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Helen Chen, Ni Ni Soe, Seang-Mei Saw, Birit F.P. Broekman, Peter D. Gluckman, Kenneth Kwek, Anne Rifkin-Graboi, Yue Li, Michael J. Meaney, Joann S. Poh, Anqi Qiu, Daniel J. Wen, and Yap Seng Chong
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Male ,Pediatrics ,Physiology ,Maternal Health ,Child Behavior ,lcsh:Medicine ,Electroencephalography ,Families ,0302 clinical medicine ,Mathematical and Statistical Techniques ,Pregnancy ,Neural Pathways ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Ethnicities ,Child ,lcsh:Science ,Pre and post ,Children ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Clinical Neurophysiology ,Brain Mapping ,Multidisciplinary ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Depression ,Obstetrics and Gynecology ,Frontal Lobe ,Electrophysiology ,Frontal asymmetry ,Bioassays and Physiological Analysis ,Frontal lobe ,Brain Electrophysiology ,Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects ,Physical Sciences ,Regression Analysis ,Female ,Infants ,Statistics (Mathematics) ,Research Article ,Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Imaging Techniques ,Neurophysiology ,Mothers ,Neuroimaging ,Research and Analysis Methods ,Depression, Postpartum ,03 medical and health sciences ,Diagnostic Medicine ,Mental Health and Psychiatry ,medicine ,Humans ,Statistical Methods ,Psychiatry ,Depressive symptoms ,Behavior ,Depressive Disorder ,business.industry ,Mood Disorders ,Electrophysiological Techniques ,lcsh:R ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Infant ,medicine.disease ,030227 psychiatry ,Mood disorders ,Age Groups ,People and Places ,Women's Health ,Population Groupings ,lcsh:Q ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Mathematics ,Neuroscience - Abstract
This study investigated the relationships between pre- and early post-natal maternal depression and their changes with frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) activity and functional connectivity in 6- and 18-month olds, as well as externalizing and internalizing behaviors in 24-month olds (n = 258). Neither prenatal nor postnatal maternal depressive symptoms independently predicted neither the frontal EEG activity nor functional connectivity in 6- and 18-month infants. However, increasing maternal depressive symptoms from the prenatal to postnatal period predicted greater right frontal activity and relative right frontal asymmetry amongst 6-month infants but these finding were not observed amongst 18-month infants after adjusted for post-conceptual age on the EEG visit day. Subsequently increasing maternal depressive symptoms from the prenatal to postnatal period predicted lower right frontal connectivity within 18-month infants but not among 6-month infants after controlling for post-conceptual age on the EEG visit day. These findings were observed in the full sample and the female sample but not in the male sample. Moreover, both prenatal and early postnatal maternal depressive symptoms independently predicted children’s externalizing and internalizing behaviors at 24 months of age. This suggests that the altered frontal functional connectivity in infants born to mothers whose depressive symptomatology increases in the early postnatal period compared to that during pregnancy may reflect a neural basis for the familial transmission of phenotypes associated with mood disorders, particularly in girls.
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- 2016