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Slow Brain Growth In Babies Linked To Depression During Pregnancy
March 7, 2012 by NewsBot
A recent study, conducted by Dr. Hanan El Marroun, a scientific researcher at Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's hospital, and published in Archives of General Psychiatry , reveals that babies whose mothers are depressed while they are pregnant have a greater chance of growing more slowly than other babies, resulting in the head and body showing retarded growth...