Roberta A. Mancuso

TL;DR: These findings are the first to link both psychosocial and neuroendocrine factors to birth outcomes in a prospective design and support the mediation hypothesis at Time 2, indicating that women with high CRH levels and high maternal prenatal anxiety at 28 to 30 weeks gestation delivered earlier than women with lower CRH Levels and maternal prenatal Anxiety.

TL;DR: Results support emerging research showing sleep quality is a risk factor for negative maternal affect in the postpartum period, and assessment of maternal sleep hygiene is worth consideration as a component of identifying women at risk for post partum depression and anxiety.

TL;DR: The results contribute to the understanding of the complex etiological processes involved in African American birth outcomes and set the stage for further research into their reproductive health status.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe inflammatory and immune marker trajectories from pregnancy to a year post-birth, and test associations with sociodemographic, health and pregnancy-related variables.

TL;DR: A new framework that can shorten the cycle of psychometric feedback to multiple times in one training day is presented, and a specific set of short-term state indicators based on well-known personality trait and state models are implemented.