Neural reactivity to infant faces and trait mindfulness as prospective predictors of postpartum depressive symptoms.

ABSTRACT: Postpartum depression (PPD) impacts the health of both mothers and their offspring, underscoring the importance of early identification of risk factors for PPD. While both low-trait mindfulness and blunted neural processing to emotional stimuli (indexed by the late positive potential; LPP) have been separately associated with depression, previous work has highlighted an inverse relationship between trait mindfulness and neural emotional processing. Thus, it remains unclear how facets of trait mindfulness and neural emotional processing interact as risk factors for PPD. During the second trimester, pregnant women (n = 117) completed the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS), and an infant face matching task while continuous electroence

SUBMITTER: Woronko SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12232934 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature