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September 5, 2025Open Access

Maternal Perinatal Depression, but not Anxiety, Associates with Infants’ Functional Connectivity at One Month of Age

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ZMZayna K. MianLCLaura CarnevaliUniversity of PaduaBBBorja BlancoUniversity of Cambridge

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Implication

Longitudinal analysis shows prenatal maternal depression affects infant functional connectivity, implying unique developmental pathways compared to anxiety.

Key Points

  • Lower prenatal maternal depression scores were linked to stronger functional connectivity in infants' frontal networks.
  • Maternal depressive symptoms increased from prenatal to postnatal periods correlated with changes in infant connectivity.
  • The analysis used high-density diffuse optical tomography to assess infant brain function during natural sleep.
  • These findings suggest that even subclinical maternal depressive symptoms could impact infant neurodevelopment.

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Mian et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68bb46c36d6d5674bccfef09https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3q6g4_v1
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