33. The Perfect Storm: Understanding Perinatal Mental Illness

10/06/22 • 51 min

On this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Prof Carmine Pariante, a psychiatrist and professor at King's College London. This episode is part of a collaboration with InSPIre the Mind – a digital magazine – where we are doing a series of blogs on maternal mental illness. Over the next month check out stories from the series at : https://www.inspirethemind.org/our-series

In this episode we talk about the different mental illnesses that can occur during the perinatal period, the causes for these illnesses, and the need to improve our support to those who birth the next generation.

You can read the InSPIre the Mind Maternal Mental Illness series here: https://www.inspirethemind.org/our-series

For more about Prof Carmine Pariante see: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-carmine-pariante

You can read the InSPIre the Mind Maternal Mental Illness series here: https://www.inspirethemind.org/our-series

For more about Prof Carmine Pariante see: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-carmine-pariante

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32. Milking It For All It's Worth

In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Amanda Kentner a Full Professor at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in the USA. We talk about her recent research published at eNeuro on the important role that enrichment can play in parenting and development. Don’t miss this episode on cutting edge research in behavioral neuroscience. So interesting!

Download the publication here: https://www.eneuro.org/content/9/4/ENEURO.0148-22.2022

For more information about Prof. Kentner’s research see https://www.kentnerlab.org/

Citations: DeRosa H, Caradonna SG, Tran H, Marrocco J, Kentner AC. Milking It for All It's Worth: The Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Maternal Nurturance, Lactation Quality, and Offspring Social Behavior. eNeuro. 2022 Aug 25;9(4):ENEURO.0148-22.2022. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0148-22.2022. PMID: 35995560.

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34. After the Storm

On this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited talk with Emma Jane Unsworth, British writer and bestselling author. We talk about her memoir After the Storm: Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood and what she did to prepare for her second pregnancy and postpartum experience. This podcast episode is part of a collaboration with InSPIre the Mind – a digital magazine – where we have been doing a series on Maternal Mental Health. Listen to the podcast, read the book and check out the maternal mental health series. All are musts.

For more on Emma Jane Unsworth’s book After the Storm: Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood see: https://www.waterstones.com/book/after-the-storm/emma-jane-unsworth/9781788166553

You can read the Maternal Mental Health series here: https://www.inspirethemind.org/our-series