There is good evidence that parental psychiatric disorder has a deleterious eVect on child
development. Rutter has outlined a number of possible reasons for this. 1 First, there may be�…

Although the impact of parental psychiatric disorder on school aged children is well
described,'only recently has attention turned to the possible consequences for infant�…

Epidemiological studies of puerperal samples have consistently revealed the prevalence of
non-psychotic major depressive disorder in the early weeks after delivery to be around 10�…

Studies of the impact of parental depression on preschool and school-age children have
consistently reported a variety of adverse effects. For example, there have been findings of�…

This study investigates whether three-year-old children whose mothers had been depressed
after their birth showed more behaviour disturbance than children of mothers who were not�…

A literature search for the past 15 years was conducted using the MEDLINE database, and
by reviewing the bibliographies of the retrieved articles. Of particular interest were the�…

A large sample of primiparous women was screened far depression after childbirth. Those
identified us depressed, women with a previous history of depression and a control group�…

The effects of postnatal depression on cognitive test scores at 20 months and 4; 8 years of
age as well as the timing (onset in the early postnatal period versus later), severity, number�…

A community sample of depressed and well mothers, recruited at 2 months postpartum and
assessed through to 18 months, was followed up at 5 years. The quality of mother–child�…

Background: Maternal depression is known to be associated with impairments in child
cognitive development, although the effect of timing of exposure to maternal depression is�…