Treating depression during pregnancy may benefit baby’s brain development – new research

By Elysia Poggi Davis, Professor of Psychology, University of Denver
Benjamin L. Hankin, Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Catherine Demers, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz

Treating pregnant women’s depression with a short course of talk therapy doesn’t just improve their health – it can also shape how their babies’ brains develop before birth. That’s the finding of a new study we co-authored, published in the journal Nature Communications.

The study is part of an ongoing research project that explores how a form of brief interpersonal psychotherapy called MOMCare, which is specially tailored to treating…

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