Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152991
Title: Pre- and Post-Natal Maternal Depressive Symptoms in Relation with Infant Frontal Function, Connectivity, and Behaviors
Authors: Soe, N. N. 
D. J. Wen 
J. S. Poh 
Y. Li 
B. F. Broekman 
H. Chen 
Y. S. Chong 
K. Kwek 
S. M. Saw 
P. D. Gluckman 
M. J. Meaney
A. Rifkin-Graboi
A. Qiu 
Issue Date: 2016
Publisher: Public Library of Science
Citation: Soe, N. N., D. J. Wen, J. S. Poh, Y. Li, B. F. Broekman, H. Chen, Y. S. Chong, K. Kwek, S. M. Saw, P. D. Gluckman, M. J. Meaney, A. Rifkin-Graboi, A. Qiu (2016). Pre- and Post-Natal Maternal Depressive Symptoms in Relation with Infant Frontal Function, Connectivity, and Behaviors. PloS one 11 (4) : e0152991. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152991
Abstract: This study investigated the relationships between pre- and early post-natal maternal depression and their changes with frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) activity and functional connectivity in 6- and 18-month olds, as well as externalizing and internalizing behaviors in 24-month olds (n = 258). Neither prenatal nor postnatal maternal depressive symptoms independently predicted neither the frontal EEG activity nor functional connectivity in 6- and 18-month infants. However, increasing maternal depressive symptoms from the prenatal to postnatal period predicted greater right frontal activity and relative right frontal asymmetry amongst 6-month infants but these finding were not observed amongst 18- month infants after adjusted for post-conceptual age on the EEG visit day. Subsequently increasing maternal depressive symptoms from the prenatal to postnatal period predicted lower right frontal connectivity within 18-month infants but not among 6-month infants after controlling for post-conceptual age on the EEG visit day. These findings were observed in the full sample and the female sample but not in the male sample. Moreover, both prenatal and early postnatal maternal depressive symptoms independently predicted children's externalizing and internalizing behaviors at 24 months of age. This suggests that the altered frontal functional connectivity in infants born to mothers whose depressive symptomatology increases in the early postnatal period compared to that during pregnancy may reflect a neural basis for the familial transmission of phenotypes associated with mood disorders, particularly in girls. © 2016 Soe et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Source Title: PloS one
URI: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/135331
ISSN: 19326203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152991
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