Hair cortisol levels predict which mothers are more likely to suffer postpartum depression

Hair cortisol levels predict which mothers are more likely to suffer postpartum depression

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Psychology & Psychiatry Journal -- Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR), who belong to the Brain, Mind and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, from its abbreviation in Spanish) and the Faculty of Psychology, have proven that cortisol levels (a steroid hormone secreted as a response to stress) present in the hair of pregnant women during the first or third trimesters of pregnancy may indicate which of them are more likely to suffer postpartum depression.

Their work, published in the renowned PLoS ONE journal, showed that hair cortisol levels in women who developed postpartum depression were higher throughout pregnancy than those seen …

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(2017-12-02), Hair cortisol levels predict which mothers are more likely to suffer postpartum depression, Psychology & Psychiatry Journal, 122, ISSN: 1944-2726, BUTTER® ID: 014762587