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TL;DR: A review of 17 randomized trials found that women who exercised had lower depression scores than women given usual care, both during pregnancy and after birth. The evidence is rated low to very low certainty, and the studies varied a lot. For anxiety du…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in Archives of Women’s Mental Health linked prenatal active tobacco smoking with higher odds of postpartum depression, while secondhand smoke and electronic nicotine-product estimates were not statistically cle…
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TL;DR: A 2026 meta-analysis in Psychological Medicine found postpartum depression (PPD) brain-activity differences across default-mode, limbic, and sensorimotor regions, with spatial overlap in serotonin, dopamine, and vesicular acetylcholine transporter maps.…
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