Emerging literature in the microbiota-brain axis and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders

This 2018 review examined the evidence on the link between vitamin D levels with antenatal depression (AD) and postpartum depression (PPD) since findings on these associations have been inconsistent. While a total of 239 relevant studies were identified, the two independent authors selected 14 to be included in this review. The quality of the included […]

In this review, Sparling et al. (2017) aimed to evaluate whether perinatal depression (depression during pregnancy or post‐partum) is connected to dietary intake (adherence to diets, dietary consumption of essential nutrients or supplements). This association has been proposed since essential nutrients that are important in the neurotransmission system are depleted during pregnancy. Of the 35 […]