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Maternal Depression Effects on Infants and Early Interventions

Overview of attention for article published in Preventive Medicine, March 1998
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Title
Maternal Depression Effects on Infants and Early Interventions
Published in
Preventive Medicine, March 1998
DOI 10.1006/pmed.1998.0293
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Abstract

Our recent research suggests that: (1) maternal depression negatively affects infants as early as the neonatal period, implicating prenatal effects of maternal depression; (2) as early as birth the infants show a profile of "dysregulation" in their behavior, physiology, and biochemistry which probably derives from prenatal exposure to a biochemical imbalance in their mothers; (3) these effects are compounded by the disorganizing influence of the mother's interaction behavior; (4) depressed mothers have two predominant interaction styles, withdrawn or intrusive, which seem to have differential, negative effects on their infants related to inadequate stimulation and arousal modulation; (5) nondepressed caregivers such as fathers may buffer these effects because they provide more optimal stimulation and arousal modulation; and (6) interventions that are mood altering for the mothers (e.g., music and massage therapy) and arousal reducing for the infants (e.g., the same therapies) make the mothers and infants more responsive to interaction coaching and improve their interactions.

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Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 2%
Japan 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 224 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 43 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 24 10%
Student > Bachelor 24 10%
Researcher 24 10%
Student > Master 21 9%
Other 40 17%
Unknown 56 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 95 41%
Medicine and Dentistry 22 9%
Social Sciences 16 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 4%
Arts and Humanities 8 3%
Other 20 9%
Unknown 62 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 May 2020.
All research outputs
#5,818,655
of 32,071,872 outputs
Outputs from Preventive Medicine
#2,028
of 5,381 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,843
of 42,996 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Preventive Medicine
#8
of 16 outputs
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