Our Role & Impact

Enabling the discoveries that ensure families are happy and healthy

Our Role & Impact
  1. Our Role & Impact
  2. RESEARCH PROJECTS FUNDED THROUGH HMRI
  3. Here's looking at you kid: Face processing, emotional availability and reflective functioning in mothers with post natal depression

Here's looking at you kid: Face processing, emotional availability and reflective functioning in mothers with post natal depression

The proposed study is significant and timely, and examines the important public health issue of postnatal depression, a debilitating disorder that impacts on the individual, the infant and the broader family.

Understanding how postnatal depression disrupts normal ability to attend to non-vocal cues (emotional displays) in the infant is important for developing therapeutic interventions that target intergenerational transmission of neglect, abuse and mental health disorders in children of mothers with postnatal depression, and to improve the mother-baby attachment so as to minimise the cumulative risk factors of unfavourable developmental outcomes for children of mothers with postnatal depression.

Researchers 

Dr Carmel Loughland, Linda Campbell

Research Area 
Brain & Mental Health
Project type 
Project Grant
Year of funding 
2013