Plasma oxytocin concentration during pregnancy is associated with development of postpartum depression

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1886-1893

  Skrundz, Marta ^a   Bolten, Margarete ^a   Nast, Irina ^a   Hellhammer, Dirk H ^b   Meinlschmidt, Gunther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

adaptation to motherhood; EPDS; oxytocin; postpartum depression; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OXYTOCIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79960302297     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.74     Document Type: Article

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