Neuropsychological functioning in postpartum depressed versus nondepressed females and nonpostpartum controls. 2010

Lambros Messinis, and Christina H Vlahou, and Vassilis Tsapanos, and Aggeliki Tsapanos, and Diamantina Spilioti, and Panagiotis Papathanasopoulos
Department of Neurology, Neuropsychology Section, University of Patras Medical School, Rion, Patras, Greece. lmessinis@upatras.gr

We compared 21 postpartum depressed (PPD) women, 22 postpartum nondepressed (PPND) women, and 24 nondepressed, nonpostpartum women on a neuropsychological test battery. Postpartum women presented lower performance on initial learning (Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, RAVLT) than did controls. Further, PPD women presented lower performance on Part B of the Trail Making Test than did PPND women and controls. No differences were observed in RAVLT recall or recognition trials, in Greek versions of the Controlled Oral Word Association Test, or in the Ruff 2 and 7 Selective Attention Test. Findings support the hypothesis that postpartum cognitive difficulties could be partially due to postnatal mood problems.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D009483 Neuropsychological Tests Tests designed to assess neurological function associated with certain behaviors. They are used in diagnosing brain dysfunction or damage and central nervous system disorders or injury. Aphasia Tests,Cognitive Test,Cognitive Testing,Cognitive Tests,Memory for Designs Test,Neuropsychological Testing,AX-CPT,Behavioral Assessment of Dysexecutive Syndrome,CANTAB,Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery,Clock Test,Cognitive Function Scanner,Continuous Performance Task,Controlled Oral Word Association Test,Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System,Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment,Hooper Visual Organization Test,NEPSY,Neuropsychologic Tests,Neuropsychological Test,Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test,Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status,Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure,Symbol Digit Modalities Test,Test of Everyday Attention,Test, Neuropsychological,Tests, Neuropsychological,Tower of London Test,Neuropsychologic Test,Test, Cognitive,Testing, Cognitive,Testing, Neuropsychological,Tests, Cognitive
D011939 Mental Recall The process whereby a representation of past experience is elicited. Recall, Mental
D003072 Cognition Disorders Disorders characterized by disturbances in mental processes related to learning, thinking, reasoning, and judgment. Overinclusion,Disorder, Cognition,Disorders, Cognition
D003866 Depressive Disorder An affective disorder manifested by either a dysphoric mood or loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities. The mood disturbance is prominent and relatively persistent. Depression, Endogenous,Depression, Neurotic,Depression, Unipolar,Depressive Syndrome,Melancholia,Neurosis, Depressive,Unipolar Depression,Depressions, Endogenous,Depressions, Neurotic,Depressions, Unipolar,Depressive Disorders,Depressive Neuroses,Depressive Neurosis,Depressive Syndromes,Disorder, Depressive,Disorders, Depressive,Endogenous Depression,Endogenous Depressions,Melancholias,Neuroses, Depressive,Neurotic Depression,Neurotic Depressions,Syndrome, Depressive,Syndromes, Depressive,Unipolar Depressions
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D014706 Verbal Learning Learning to respond verbally to a verbal stimulus cue. Learning, Verbal,Learnings, Verbal,Verbal Learnings
D017603 Signal Detection, Psychological Psychophysical technique that permits the estimation of the bias of the observer as well as detectability of the signal (i.e., stimulus) in any sensory modality. (From APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.) Signal Detection (Psychology),Signal Detection Analysis,Signal Detection Theory,Analyses, Signal Detection,Analysis, Signal Detection,Detection, Psychological Signal,Detection, Signal (Psychology),Detections, Psychological Signal,Detections, Signal (Psychology),Psychological Signal Detection,Psychological Signal Detections,Signal Detection Analyses,Signal Detection Theories,Signal Detections (Psychology),Signal Detections, Psychological,Theories, Signal Detection,Theory, Signal Detection

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