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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • The fetal phase is a recognized sensitive developmental period.
  • Pregnancy is proposed as a simultaneous sensitive period for the adult female.
  • This period has significant and lasting consequences for maternal health, development, and psychopathology risk.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Examine the transition to motherhood using a developmental psychopathology framework.
  • Summarize typical and atypical brain and behavioral changes during the perinatal period.
  • Highlight how maternal neuroplasticity during pregnancy increases vulnerability to psychopathology.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on perinatal changes.
  • Analysis of fetal signaling mechanisms affecting maternal phenotypes (hormones, motor activity, gene transfer).
  • Application of evolutionary perspectives to understand fetal contributions to maternal psychopathology.

Main Results:

  • Pregnancy involves exceptional neuroplasticity in women.
  • Fetal signaling can influence maternal phenotypes.
  • Evolutionary factors may explain fetal contributions to maternal psychopathology.

Conclusions:

  • The transition to motherhood is a critical neurodevelopmental period for women.
  • Understanding fetal-maternal interactions is key to addressing maternal psychopathology.
  • The developmental psychopathology perspective offers valuable insights into maternal mental health during pregnancy.