TY  - JOUR
AU  - Schnakenberg, Patricia
AU  - Jo, Han-Gue
AU  - Stickel, Susanne
AU  - Habel, Ute
AU  - Eickhoff, Simon B.
AU  - Brodkin, Edward S.
AU  - Goecke, Tamme Weyert
AU  - Votinov, Mikhail
AU  - Chechko, Natalia
TI  - The early postpartum period – Differences between women with and without a history of depression
JO  - Anatomical science international
VL  - 136
SN  - 0022-3956
CY  - Tokyo
PB  - Springer814959
M1  - FZJ-2021-01116
SP  - 109-116
PY  - 2021
AB  - Depression is a highly recurrent disorder. When in remission, it affords an important opportunity to understand the state-independent neurobiological alterations, as well as the socio-demographic characteristics, that likely contribute to the recurrence of major depressive disorder (MDD). The present study examined 110 euthymic women in their early postpartum period. A comparison was made between participants with (n = 20) and without (n = 90) a history of MDD by means of a multimodal approach including an fMRI experiment, assessment of hair cortisol concentration (HCC) and a clinical anamnestic interview. Women with a personal history of MDD were found to have decreased resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) between the lateral parietal cortex (LPC) and the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), and their Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) scores were significantly higher shortly after childbirth. More often than not, these women also had a family history of MDD. While women with no history of depression showed a negative association between hair cortisol concentration (HCC) and gray matter volume (GMV) in the medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC), the opposite trend was seen in women with a history of depression. This implies that women with remitted depression show distinctive neural phenotypes with subclinical residual symptoms, which likely predispose them to later depressive episodes.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 33588224
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000634104500015
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.01.056
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/890668
ER  -