Rates of Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder in Black and White Postpartum Women.

Little is known about differences between Black and White women with respect to the prevalence of postpartum mood disorders or symptom presentations. To determine the prevalence and characteristics of postpartum major mood disorders in Black and White women at 4-6 weeks after birth. This is a secondary analysis of a large-scale study designed to screen women for postpartum depression with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and collect symptom data.

Evaluating spatiotemporal integration of shape cues.

Prior work has shown that humans can successfully identify letters that are constructed with a sparse array of dots, wherein the dot pattern reflects the strokes that would normally be used to fashion a given letter. In the present work the dots were briefly displayed, one at a time in sequence, varying the spatial order in which they were shown. A forward sequence was spatially ordered as though one were passing a stroke across the dots to connect them.