Swiss scientists may have found a way to identify pregnant women who are at risk for experiencing post-partum depression after their babies are born, as well as a clue to how to prevent it.
Gunther Meinlschmidt of the University of Basel in Switzerland and colleagues studied 74 healthy pregnant women, testing them for signs of depression and taking blood samples in their third trimesters.
In a paper published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, the researchers reported that those who had lower levels of the hormone oxytocin before giving birth were significantly more likely to develop post-partum depression within two weeks after giving birth.
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