Pregnancy depression affeacting developments of kids' brains

Nov 18, 2016

 Eighteen percent of women experience depression sometimes during pregnancy,it has been resulting with negative outcomes in children.

Depressive symptoms in women during and after pregnancy are linked to reduces thickness in cortex –the outer layer of the brain responsible for complex thought and behavior in pre-age school kids, says a new study .

The findings, published in the journal biological psychiatry, suggests that a mother’s mood may affect her child’s brain development at critical stages in life.

Women with higher depressive symptoms tended to have children with thinner frontal and temporal areas, cortical regions implicated in tasks  involving inhibition and attention control.