Foetal exposure to maternal depression predicts cortisol responses in infants: findings from rural South India.
Michelle FernandesA SteinK SrinivasanG MenezesP G RamchandaniPublished in: Child: care, health and development (2014)
These findings suggest that the association between antenatal depression and infant cortisol reactivity is dose-dependent and U-shaped, implying that infants exposed to both low and high levels of maternal depression showed greater reactivity. The study provides the first evidence of such an association from a low-income setting.