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Current perspectives on perinatal mental health and neurobehavioral development: focus on regulation, coregulation

Bea R H Van den Bergh1, Marta C Antonelli2,3, Dan J Stein4

  • 1Research Group Health Psychology, KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Leuven, Belgium.

Current Opinion in Psychiatry
|February 28, 2024
PubMed

Insights

Maternal perinatal mental health impacts offspring neurodevelopment, linked to self-regulation issues. Addressing these requires a multidisciplinary, system-level approach for caregiver-child and family well-being.

Area of Science:

  • Neurobehavioral development research.
  • Perinatal mental health studies.

Background:

  • Maternal perinatal mental distress is linked to offspring self-regulation problems (cognitive, behavioral, affective).
  • Positive parental mental health shows a beneficial impact, though effect sizes are small.
  • Mechanistic pathways are complex, with interactive and compensatory mechanisms across development understudied.

Approach:

  • Review of meta-analyses and multiexposure studies.
  • Exploration of hypothesized mechanistic pathways.
  • Identification of progress and challenges in the field.

Key Points:

  • Maternal mental health significantly influences infant neurodevelopment and self-regulation.
  • Complex, interactive, and compensatory mechanisms require further investigation.
  • Multidisciplinary and system-level approaches are crucial for effective intervention.

Conclusions:

  • Promoting neurobehavioral development necessitates addressing vulnerable contexts and building resilient systems during the perinatal period.
  • A pluralistic research approach, integrating multidisciplinary theoretical models and empirical investigation, is essential.
  • Sparse evidence highlights the need for more research on caregiver-child and family-level interventions.
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