Maternal Affective Illness in the Perinatal Period and Child Development: Findings on Developmental Timing, Mechanisms, and Intervention

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1-5

  O’Connor, Thomas G ^a   Monk, Catherine ^b   Burke, Anne S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Child development; Developmental programming; Mood disorder; Perinatal

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL STRESS; MATERNAL WELFARE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOOD DISORDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOM; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGY;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84957579212     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-016-0660-y     Document Type: Review

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