Perinatal depression in mothers is associated with a greater risk of their offspring reporting psychotic experiences by 18 years old.The study, believed to be the first to associate maternal perinatal depressive symptoms and adult offspring psychosis, indicates common development mechanisms might be driving genetic psychiatric risk—and stresses the need for increased mental health monitoring of pregnant and postnatal women.A team of UK-based investigators, led by Ramya Srinivasan, BMBCh, of the University College London, conducted a longitudinal study of data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ASPLAC), a 14,541-participant birth cohort of pregnant women with an estimated delivery date between April 1991 and December
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