THE TRANSMISSION OF PERINATAL MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH TO PRESCHOOL EMOTIONAL DISORDERS: EXAMINING PATHWAYS AND INTERVENTION POINTS IN THE MPEWS STUDY

Fetal programming pathway from maternal mental health to infant cortisol functioning: The role of placental 11fl-HSD2 mRNA expression

Megan Galbally, Stuart J Watson, Martha Lappas, E Ron de Kloet, Elisabeth van Rossum, Caitlin Wyrwoll, Peter Mark, Andrew J Lewis

2021-05-01

Placental 11β-HSD2 has been a focus of research for understanding potential fetal programming associated with maternal emotional d..

Maternal perinatal depression, circulating oxytocin levels and childhood emotional disorders at 4 years of age: The importance of psychosocial context.

Megan Galbally, Stuart J Watson, Jeff Keelan, Kelli K MacMillan, Josephine Power, Marinus van IJzendoorn, Andrew J Lewis

2020-11-01

Oxytocin has been a hormone of interest in understanding both depression and parenting. Here, the role of oxytocin has been explor..

The mother, the infant and the mother-infant relationship: What is the impact of antidepressant medication in pregnancy.

Megan Galbally, Stuart J Watson, Philip Boyce, Thinh Nguyen, Andrew J Lewis

2020-07-01

BACKGROUND: Both antidepressant use and depression in pregnancy have the potential to impact on outcomes for the women, their moth..

Maternal depression and the emotional availability of mothers at six months postpartum: Findings from the Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Wellbeing Study (MPEWS) pregnancy cohort.

Kelli K MacMillan, Andrew J Lewis, Stuart J Watson, Megan Galbally

2020-04-01

BACKGROUND: Existing research suggests maternal depression may reduce the quality of early mother-infant interaction and this migh..

Trans-generational stress regulation: Mother-infant cortisol and maternal mental health across the perinatal period.

Megan Galbally, Elisabeth FC van Rossum, Stuart J Watson, Edo Ronald de Kloet, Andrew J Lewis

2019-11-01

Understanding maternal mental health and cortisol regulation across pregnancy and the relationship to the development of the offsp..

Depression across pregnancy and the postpartum, antidepressant use and the association with female sexual function

Megan Galbally, Stuart J Watson, Michael Permezel, Andrew J Lewis

2019-07-01

BACKGROUND: There is an established relationship between depression and sexual functioning in women. However, there is limited res..

The role of trauma and partner support in perinatal depression and parenting stress: An Australian pregnancy cohort study.

Megan Galbally, Stuart J Watson, Philip Boyce, Andrew J Lewis

2019-05-01

BACKGROUND: Improving our understanding of the relationship between maternal depression and parenting stress is likely to lie in t..

Breastfeeding, Antidepressants, and Depression in the Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Well-Being Study.

Megan Galbally, Stuart J Watson, Helen Ball, Andrew James Lewis

2019-02-01

BACKGROUND:: Depression is consistently shown to predict lower rates of breastfeeding. In a handful of studies, breastfeeding has ..

Perinatal maternal depression, antidepressant use and infant sleep outcomes: Exploring cross-lagged associations in a pregnancy cohort study.

Megan Galbally, Stuart J Watson, Doug Teti, Andrew J Lewis

2018-10-01

BACKGROUND: Both perinatal depression and infant sleep problems are common concerns in many communities, with these problems often..

Exercise frequency and maternal mental health: Parallel process modelling across the perinatal period in an Australian pregnancy cohort.

Stuart J Watson, Andrew J Lewis, Philip Boyce, Megan Galbally

2018-08-01

OBJECTIVE: Since the potential mental health benefits of exercise during pregnancy remain unclear, this study examined longitudina..

Maternal depression, antidepressant use and placental oxytocin receptor DNA methylation: Findings from the MPEWS study

Megan Galbally, Joanne Ryan, Marinus van IJzendoorn, Stuart J Watson, Olav Spigset, Martha Lappas, Richard Saffery, Ron de Kloet, Andrew James Lewis

2018-04-01

The aim of this study was to investigate placental DNA methylation of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) in women with depression i..

Neonatal adaptation following intrauterine antidepressant exposure: assessment, drug assay levels, and infant development outcomes

Megan Galbally, Olav Spigset, Andrew R Johnson, Rolland Kohan, Martha Lappas, Andrew J Lewis

2017-11-01

BackgroundAlthough a meta-analysis has confirmed the association between antidepressant exposure in utero and subsequent poor neon..