Our latest paper, published in November, shows a possible link between increasing depression symptoms in mothers and cellular damage in their infants. One way to study how early stress may influence health is to look at how infants respond to their parents' stress. We also collected information on how many depression symptoms mothers were feeling. Worsening depression symptoms in mothers related to greater infant cortisol stress responses between 6 and 12 months of age. This early stress may put young children on track for the early onset of poor health outcomes.

Source: Daily Mail January 22, 2018 18:00 UTC