Mental Health Starts in the Womb
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- When it comes to mental health, good mothering may play a role as soon as the day of birth. Certain factors at birth, such as a mother&#39;s mental health, could contribute to the risk of her child committing suicide later in life.
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A new study suggests that a mother's acute emotional stress during early pregnancy may increase her unborn baby's risk of developing schizophrenia later in life
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It has long been clear that chronic stress wreaks havoc on our health. Scientists have now found molecular signs of this harm. In a study of mothers of chronically ill children, the cells
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NEW YORK  - Postnatal (after birth) growth   problems, especially when associated with prenatal (before   birth) growth problems, are linked to lower physical size,   cognitive scores, and academic achievement at age 8, according   to results of a study.
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Cooling the brains of newborns who have been deprived of oxygen during birth could help cut the risk of brain damage.
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The smallest premature babies, already  at high risk of brain damage, are likely to develop even more  mental disorders if they get any infection in the first weeks  of life, researchers said on Tuesday.
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High-risk pregnancies are on the rise in the United States and may be more common now than at any other time since modern obstetric care became available.
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War, poverty and diseases such as AIDS are adding to mental health problems in poorer countries, which are generally ill-equipped to respond to depression, schizophrenia and other such ailments, according to health officials.
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Stress could  be play a role in miscarriages, researchers have suggested.
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Women who are particularly  anxious about their pregnancy may be at increased risk of  premature delivery, a new study suggests.
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Doctors aim to uncover what causes one of the most common mental health problems - social anxiety disorder.
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Scientists have come closer to solving the riddle of cot death with the discovery that more than half of all babies who die unexpectedly may have had problems in the womb.
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Public health officials are now encouraging women to make sure they are in optimal health well in advance of a pregnancy.
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First-time mothers are at increased risk for mental disorders while fathers do not share that risk, Danish researchers said on Tuesday.
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While it may seem strange, what happened to you in the womb may affect your suicide risk later in life. That&#39;s the conclusion of a study in the Sept.
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NEW YORK  - Mental health counseling given   over the phone may ease some women's depression symptoms after   a miscarriage, a small pilot study suggests.
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Over the past several decades, a steady stream of studies has documented that people born in winter and spring have an increased risk for schizophrenia, a serious mental illness characterized by disordered thinking, hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms.