137 results match your criteria: "European Institute of Perinatal Mental Health; Activist at El Parto Es Nuestro[Affiliation]"

Restorative justice in a case of traumatic birth following an unperceived pregnancy.

Arch Womens Ment Health

December 2023

Department of Child and Adolescent Medicine, CCP Comprehensive Center of Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria.

Purpose: Pregnancy can be denied or better "unperceived" by women in up to 1:300 pregnancies and poses the mother and her unborn at high risk when an unassisted birth follows. The importance of recognizing unperceived pregnancy and the risk of unassisted births for both mothers and their babies are described.

Methods: Description of a case of unperceived pregnancy and traumatic unassisted birth.

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The many faces of microbiota-gut-brain axis in autism spectrum disorder.

Life Sci

January 2024

Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health (UTHealth), Houston, TX, USA.

The gut-brain axis is gaining more attention in neurodevelopmental disorders, especially autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Many factors can influence microbiota in early life, including host genetics and perinatal events (infections, mode of birth/delivery, medications, nutritional supply, and environmental stressors). The gut microbiome can influence blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability, drug bioavailability, and social behaviors.

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Background: We quantified relative and absolute risks of postpartum psychiatric episodes (PPE) following risk factors: Young age, past personal or family history of psychiatric disorders, and genetic liability.

Methods: We conducted a register-based study using the iPSYCH2012 case-cohort sample. Exposures were personal history of psychiatric episodes prior to childbirth, being a young mother (giving birth before the age of 21.

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Prevalence, Clinical Features, Neuroimaging, and Genetic Findings in Children With Ataxic Cerebral Palsy in Europe.

Neurology

December 2023

From the Department of Paediatric Neurology (V.H., I.K.-M.), University Children's Hospital Tübingen, Germany; Norwegian Quality and Surveillance Registry for Cerebral Palsy (G.L.A.), Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg, Norway; CERPOP (C.A.), UMR 1295 Toulouse University, Inserm, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse; Clinical Epidemiology Unit (C.A.), University Hospital of Toulouse, France; Imas12 (J.D.L.C.), Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, RedSAMID, Madrid Spain; Department of Pediatrics (I.D.), Children's Hospital, University of Zagreb Croatia; Association Rehabilitation Center (A.G.), Riga, Latvia; The Central Remedial Clinic (O.H.), Dublin, Ireland; Department of Pediatrics (K. Himmelmann), Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg; Regional Rehabilitation Centre (K. Himmelmann), Queen Silvia Children's Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Pediatrics (K. Hollody), Faculty of Medicine, University of Pecs, Hungary; Childhood Disability and Development (K. Horridge), University of Sunderland, UK; Zentrum für Kinderneurologie (C.T.K.), Entwicklung und Rehabilitation, Ostschweizer Kinderspital, St. Gallen, Switzerland; Developmental Age Mental Health and Rehabilitation Unit (M.M.), ASL (local Health Institution Viterbo), Viterbo, Italy; Department of Development and Regeneration (E.O.), KU Leuven, Belgium; Iaso Children's Hospital (A.P.), Athens, Greece; Queen's University Belfast (O.P.), UK; Norwich Medical School (M.J.P.), University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK; Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (G.R.), Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark; Counselling and Diagnostic Centre (S.S.), Iceland Department of Child and Adolescent & Developmental Neurology (A.T.G.), Children´s Hospital, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia; PVNPC (D.V.), Programa de Vigilância Nacional da Paralisia Cerebral, Departamento de Epidemiologia, Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Lisboa, Portugal; Grenoble Alpes University (E.S.), CNRS, Grenoble INP, CHU Grenoble Alpes, TIMC-IMAG; and Registre des Handicaps de l'Enfant et Observatoire Périnatal (E.S.), Grenoble, France.

Background And Objectives: To report on prevalence, associated impairments, severity, and neuroimaging findings in children with ataxic cerebral palsy (CP).

Methods: In children coded as having ataxic CP in the Central database of Joint Research Center-Surveillance of Cerebral Palsy in Europe (JRC-SCPE) and born during 1980-2010, birth characteristics, severity profiles including associated impairments, neuroimaging patterns, and the presence of syndromes were analyzed. Definitions were according to validated SCPE guidelines.

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Background: Phenylketonuria (PKU) is the most common inherited disease of amino acid metabolism, characterised by elevated levels of phenylalanine (Phe). There is a lack of infant feeding guidance for those with PKU. From birth to 6 months of age, breast feeding is the optimal nutrition for an infant and continuing breast feeding for infants with PKU is recommended by European guidelines.

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  • Preterm birth significantly increases the risk of mortality in children with major congenital anomalies (CAs), with the risks being higher for those born at very low gestational ages.
  • Maternal age under 20 years is linked to higher mortality rates both in infancy and early childhood, while female children have a slightly increased risk compared to males.
  • Understanding these risk factors can improve clinical care and provide better support for parents of children born with CAs.
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Introduction: The majority of data on COVID-19 in pregnancy are not from sound population-based active surveillance systems.

Material And Methods: We conducted a multi-national study of population-based national or regional prospective cohorts using standardized definitions within the International Network of Obstetric Survey systems (INOSS). From a source population of women giving birth between March 1 and August 31, 2020, we included pregnant women admitted to hospital with a positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test ≤7 days prior to or during admission and up to 2 days after birth.

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Introduction: Linking healthcare data sets can create valuable resources for research, particularly when investigating rare exposures or outcomes. However, across Europe, the permissions processes required to access data can be complex. This paper documents the processes required by the EUROlinkCAT study investigators to research the health and survival of children with congenital anomalies in Europe.

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Inflammatory subgroups of schizophrenia and their association with brain structure: A semi-supervised machine learning examination of heterogeneity.

Brain Behav Immun

October 2023

Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Birmingham Early Interventions Service, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom.

Objective: Immune system dysfunction is hypothesised to contribute to structural brain changes through aberrant synaptic pruning in schizophrenia. However, evidence is mixed and there is a lack of evidence of inflammation and its effect on grey matter volume (GMV) in patients. We hypothesised that inflammatory subgroups can be identified and that the subgroups will show distinct neuroanatomical and neurocognitive profiles.

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Neonatal hypoxia-ischemia (HI) often causes hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), a neurological condition that can lead to overall disability in newborns. The only treatment available for affected neonates is therapeutic hypothermia; however, cooling is not always effective to prevent the deleterious effects of HI, so compounds such as cannabinoids are currently under research as new therapies. Modulating the endocannabinoid system (ECS) may reduce brain damage and/or stimulate cell proliferation at the neurogenic niches.

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Genotypes causing pregnancy loss and perinatal mortality are depleted among living individuals and are therefore difficult to find. To explore genetic causes of recessive lethality, we searched for sequence variants with deficit of homozygosity among 1.52 million individuals from six European populations.

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(Poly)phenol intake, plant-rich dietary patterns and cardiometabolic health: a cross-sectional study.

Food Funct

May 2023

Department of Nutritional Sciences, School of Life Course and Population Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.

Diet is an important modifiable risk factor for cardiometabolic diseases. Plant foods contain a complex mixture of nutrients and bioactive compounds such as (poly)phenols. Plant-rich dietary patterns have been associated with reduced cardiometabolic risk in epidemiological studies.

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The British Association for Psychopharmacology developed an evidence-based consensus guideline on the management of catatonia. A group of international experts from a wide range of disciplines was assembled. Evidence was gathered from existing systematic reviews and the primary literature.

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Background: The aim of the Perinatal Mental Health for Refugee Women (PMH-RW) Project is to investigate the impact of the war on perinatal mental health: anxiety, post-traumatic stress, depression, and birth trauma symptoms. It will also evaluate the factors that serve as protective elements for the development of these potential diagnoses (such as personality traits, social support, sociodemographic characteristics, and access to medical/mental health services).

Method: An international observational cohort study with baseline data is being assessed in Ukraine (for internal refugees) and several European Countries (for external refugees).

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Objective: To investigate the survival to 10 years of age of children with trisomy 13 (T13) and children with trisomy 18 (T18), born 1995-2014.

Design: Population-based cohort study that linked mortality data to data on children born with T13 or T18, including translocations and mosaicisms, from 13 member registries of EUROCAT, a European network for the surveillance of congenital anomalies.

Setting: 13 regions in nine Western European countries.

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  • * Aim: The study aims to systematically review the effects of synthetic oxytocin on the oxytocin levels in mothers and newborns during and after labor, examining potential impacts on their natural hormone systems.
  • * Results: Administration of synthetic oxytocin significantly increased maternal levels in a dose-dependent manner, with higher rates achieving levels 2-3 times normal. Newborns showed elevated oxytocin levels, which were notably higher in the umbilical artery than in the umbilical vein, indicating active production by the fetus during labor.
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The global burden of perinatal common mental health disorders and substance use among migrant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Lancet Public Health

March 2023

Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Leibniz Institute of Prevention Research and Epidemiology, Bremen, Germany; Health Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.

Background: There are one billion migrants globally, of whom 82 million are forced migrants. Pregnant migrants face pre-migration stressors such as conflict, transit stressors including poverty, and post-migration stressors including navigating the immigration system; these stressors can make them vulnerable to mental illness. We aimed to assess the global prevalence of and risk factors for perinatal mental health disorders or substance use among women who are migrants.

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Plant-based dietary patterns and their association with mood in healthy individuals.

Food Funct

March 2023

Department of Nutritional Sciences, School of Life Course and Population Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.

Article Synopsis
  • * This study evaluated 333 healthy individuals aged 8-79, using the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) questionnaire and dietary data from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC) to analyze various plant-based diets, including the Plant-based Diet Index (PDI), DASH, MIND, oMED, and aMED.
  • * Results showed that the oMED and aMED diets significantly correlate with positive mood in adults, while the PDI diet is particularly
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This study aimed to analyse the role of governmental responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, measured by the Containment and Health Index (CHI), on symptoms of anxiety and depression during pregnancy and postpartum, while considering the countries' Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) and individual factors such as age, gravidity, and exposure to COVID-19. A cross-sectional study using baseline data from the Riseup-PPD-COVID-19 observational prospective international study (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04595123) was carried out between June and October 2020 in 12 countries (Albania, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom).

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Grandparental Support and Maternal Postpartum Mental Health : A Review and Meta-Analysis.

Hum Nat

March 2023

Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL, University of London, London, UK.

Support from grandparents plays a role in mothers' perinatal mental health. However, previous research on maternal mental health has mainly focused on influences of partner support or general social support and neglected the roles of grandparents. In this narrative review and meta-analysis, the scientific evidence on the association between grandparental support and maternal perinatal mental health is reviewed.

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  • A study was conducted to explore the relationship between maternal age and the prevalence of congenital heart defects (CHD) in Europe from 1995 to 2015 using data from the EUROCAT network, amidst conflicting evidence on this topic.
  • The research showed that CHD prevalence was higher in both younger mothers (≤24 years) and older mothers (35-44 years) compared to those aged 25-29 years, with specific severe CHD types more commonly seen in younger mothers.
  • The study identified increased prevalence rates for certain CHD subtypes, including double outlet right ventricle and hypoplastic heart syndromes, highlighting varying risks associated with different maternal age groups.
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Management of obesity across women's life course: FIGO Best Practice Advice.

Int J Gynaecol Obstet

January 2023

UCD Perinatal Research Centre, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

Obesity is a chronic, progressive, relapsing, and treatable multifactorial, neurobehavioral disease. According to the World Health Organization, obesity affects 15% of women and has long-term effects on women's health. The focus of care in patients with obesity should be on optimizing health outcomes rather than on weight loss.

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Mental health of pregnant and postpartum women during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a European cross-sectional study.

BMJ Open

January 2023

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety Research Group, Department of Pharmacy, and PharmaTox Strategic Research Initiative, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Objective: To describe the mental health of perinatal women in five European countries during the third pandemic wave and identify risk factors related to depressive and anxiety symptoms.

Design: A cross-sectional, online survey-based study.

Setting: Belgium, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the UK, 10 June 2021-22 August 2021.

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  • The study aims to analyze maternal mortality rates in eight countries using enhanced surveillance systems to get more accurate data.
  • It includes data from over 2.5 million live births and evaluates maternal mortality ratios based on various factors, including age, origin, and cause.
  • Results show significant variations in maternal mortality rates across countries, with many vital statistics offices underreporting the numbers, particularly for younger and older mothers.
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