Depression off the dance music of mother-child
The baby cries. If it is a cry of pain, you respond with more force than you would with a cry of hunger - this is the normal pattern. But if you suffer from postpartum depression, the difference between the response to the cry of pain and the cries of hunger is even greater. And that, says psychologist Alison Fleming, is not necessarily a good thing. As part of a study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Dr. Fleming, with his student, Andrea Gonzalez, and collaborator, Meir Steiner, played recordings of babies crying.Depressed women, says, showed more anxiety in response to the cry of pain that provided new mothers with depression.We know that to respond, compared to non-depressed mothers, depressed mothers are less sensitive and more negative for
their children, said Fleming, a researcher at the University of Toronto (Mississauga). In this case, the fear and negative emotions affect their ability to soothe their babies and cope with their difficulties. Fleming describes the mother-child relationship as a dance: The child smiles, smiles, mother-child vocalizes, mother vocalizes back. Depressed mothers, she found, they have difficulty interacting with their children - do not take to the dance, as it was.You may have a small positive effect, he said. Or they can be moved as well - but wrongly - responsive. Fleming wants to learn more about why women with postpartum depression respond differently to their children. (Funded by CIHR) So for the next study, and their colleagues used magnetic resonance imaging or MRI to
see what happens in the brains of depressed mothers and depressed, while the look at pictures or listen to the screams of her child.A better understanding of brain function in women after childbirth may lead to possible interventions and programs to prevent depression and support the development of children.However, the best recipe for postpartum depression, says Fleming, at least in less severe cases can be as simple
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