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Maternal Distress during Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: Underlying Mechanisms and Child’s Developmental Outcomes—A Narrative Review

Maternal mental health may be considered a determining factor influencing fetal and child development. An essential factor with potentially negative consequences for a child’s psychophysiological development is the presence of maternal distress during pregnancy and the postpartum period. The review...

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Autores principales: Jeličić, Ljiljana, Veselinović, Aleksandra, Ćirović, Milica, Jakovljević, Vladimir, Raičević, Saša, Subotić, Miško
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9692872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36430406
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms232213932
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author Jeličić, Ljiljana
Veselinović, Aleksandra
Ćirović, Milica
Jakovljević, Vladimir
Raičević, Saša
Subotić, Miško
author_facet Jeličić, Ljiljana
Veselinović, Aleksandra
Ćirović, Milica
Jakovljević, Vladimir
Raičević, Saša
Subotić, Miško
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description Maternal mental health may be considered a determining factor influencing fetal and child development. An essential factor with potentially negative consequences for a child’s psychophysiological development is the presence of maternal distress during pregnancy and the postpartum period. The review is organized and presented to explore and describe the effects of anxiety, stress, and depression in pregnancy and the postpartum period on adverse child developmental outcomes. The neurobiology of maternal distress and the transmission mechanisms at the molecular level to the fetus and child are noted. In addition, the paper discusses the findings of longitudinal studies in which early child development is monitored concerning the presence of maternal distress in pregnancy and the postpartum period. This topic gained importance in the COVID-19 pandemic context, during which a higher frequency of maternal psychological disorders was observed. The need for further interdisciplinary research on the relationship between maternal mental health and fetal/child development was highlighted, especially on the biological mechanisms underlying the transmission of maternal distress to the (unborn) child, to achieve positive developmental outcomes and improve maternal and child well-being.
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spelling pubmed-96928722022-11-26 Maternal Distress during Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: Underlying Mechanisms and Child’s Developmental Outcomes—A Narrative Review Jeličić, Ljiljana Veselinović, Aleksandra Ćirović, Milica Jakovljević, Vladimir Raičević, Saša Subotić, Miško Int J Mol Sci Review Maternal mental health may be considered a determining factor influencing fetal and child development. An essential factor with potentially negative consequences for a child’s psychophysiological development is the presence of maternal distress during pregnancy and the postpartum period. The review is organized and presented to explore and describe the effects of anxiety, stress, and depression in pregnancy and the postpartum period on adverse child developmental outcomes. The neurobiology of maternal distress and the transmission mechanisms at the molecular level to the fetus and child are noted. In addition, the paper discusses the findings of longitudinal studies in which early child development is monitored concerning the presence of maternal distress in pregnancy and the postpartum period. This topic gained importance in the COVID-19 pandemic context, during which a higher frequency of maternal psychological disorders was observed. The need for further interdisciplinary research on the relationship between maternal mental health and fetal/child development was highlighted, especially on the biological mechanisms underlying the transmission of maternal distress to the (unborn) child, to achieve positive developmental outcomes and improve maternal and child well-being. MDPI 2022-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9692872/ /pubmed/36430406 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms232213932 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Ćirović, Milica
Jakovljević, Vladimir
Raičević, Saša
Subotić, Miško
Maternal Distress during Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: Underlying Mechanisms and Child’s Developmental Outcomes—A Narrative Review
title Maternal Distress during Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: Underlying Mechanisms and Child’s Developmental Outcomes—A Narrative Review
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title_fullStr Maternal Distress during Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: Underlying Mechanisms and Child’s Developmental Outcomes—A Narrative Review
title_full_unstemmed Maternal Distress during Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: Underlying Mechanisms and Child’s Developmental Outcomes—A Narrative Review
title_short Maternal Distress during Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: Underlying Mechanisms and Child’s Developmental Outcomes—A Narrative Review
title_sort maternal distress during pregnancy and the postpartum period: underlying mechanisms and child’s developmental outcomes—a narrative review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9692872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36430406
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms232213932
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