Women who go on to develop postpartum depression (PPD) may have characteristic levels of neuroactive steroids, molecules derived from the hormone progesterone, in their blood during the third ...

Therefore, these women may have compared their present level of postpartum functioning to prepregnancy functioning while depressed. The finding that women with depression had a trend of more ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - New research from the University of Virginia could change the way doctors detect and prevent postpartum depression. Postpartum depression affects about 10 to 15 percent of ...