Postpartum depression (PPD),also called postnatal depression,is a type of mood disorder associated with childbirth,which can affect both sexes. Symptoms may include extreme sadness,low energy,anxiety,crying episodes,irritability,and changes in sleeping or eating patterns. Onset is typically between one week and one month following childbirth. PPD can also negatively affect the newborn child.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is a federal agency responsible for funding health and medical research in Canada. Comprising 13 institutes,it is the successor to the Medical Research Council of Canada.
Jeffrey Alan Lieberman is an American psychiatrist who specializes in schizophrenia and related psychoses and their associated neuroscience (biology) and pharmacological treatment. He was principal investigator for CATIE,the largest and longest independent study ever funded by the United States National Institute of Mental Health to examine existing pharmacotherapies for schizophrenia. He was president of the American Psychiatric Association from May 2013 to May 2014.
Antenatal depression,also known as prenatal or perinatal depression,is a form of clinical depression that can affect a woman during pregnancy,and can be a precursor to postpartum depression if not properly treated. It is estimated that 7% to 20% of pregnant women are affected by this condition. Any form of prenatal stress felt by the mother can have negative effects on various aspects of fetal development,which can cause harm to the mother and child. Even after birth,a child born from a depressed or stressed mother feels the affects. The child is less active and can also experience emotional distress. Antenatal depression can be caused by the stress and worry that pregnancy can bring,but at a more severe level. Other triggers include unplanned pregnancy,difficulty becoming pregnant,history of abuse,and economic or family situations.
Nicole Lyn Letourneau is a Canadian professor and researcher. She is a Research Chair in Parent and Child Mental Health at the University of Calgary. Formerly she held the Alberta Children's Hospital Chair and Norlien Foundation Chair in Parent-Infant Mental Health (2011–2021) and Canada Research Chair in Healthy Child Development (2007–2011). She currently serves as the director of the RESOLVE Alberta and principal investigator for the CHILD Studies Program at Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute. She has written over 210 peer-reviewed publications;authored the books,Parenting and Child Development:Issues and Answers,What Kind of Parent Am I:Self-Surveys That Reveal The Impact of Toxic Stress Scientific Parenting:What Science reveals about Parental Impact,and has contributed more than 20 other books on parenting and childcare.
Gillian Einstein is a faculty member at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto,and holder of the inaugural Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair in Women's Brain Health and Aging.
Colleen M. Flood is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa and University Research Chair in Health Law and Policy. She is also the Director for the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law,Policy and Ethics. Previously,Flood served as a Professor at the University of Toronto and Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Maria Natashini "Natasha" Rajah is a Canadian neuroscientist who is a Full Professor at the Department of Psychiatry,McGill University,and was the inaugural Director of the Cerebral Imaging Center (CIC) at the Douglas Research Centre from 2011-2021. She is a cognitive neuroscientist who is interested in episodic memory,ageing and dementia. Her research uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how sex,gender,and social determinants of health interact with age and affect the neural networks responsible for episodic memory encoding and retrieval.
Cara Tannenbaum is a Canadian researcher and practicing physician in the fields of geriatrics,women's health and gender research. Since 2015,Tannenbaum has served as the Scientific Director of Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Institute of Gender and Health. She was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada on November 17,2021.
Marga Ingeborg Thome is a German-Icelandic nursing scholar. She is a professor emerita at the University of Iceland. In 2010,Marga was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon.
Carole Anne Estabrooks is a Canadian applied health services researcher. She is a Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation and a professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta. She has been listed amongst the highest cited researchers in her field and was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2016.
Gina Suzanne Ogilvie is a Canadian global and public health physician. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Control of HPV Related Diseases and Cancer,and Professor at the University of British Columbia in the School of Population and Public Health,Faculty of Medicine.
Anne Monique Nuyt is a Canadian paediatrician who is Professor of Neonatology and Canada Research Chair in Prematurity and Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Health and Diseases at the Universitéde Montréal. Her research considers how perinatal oxidative stress can alter the structural development and function of the cardiovascular system.
Simone Natalie Vigod is a Canadian scientist,Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Women's College Hospital and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. She focuses her research on perinatal mood disorders and has conducted some of the largest studies worldwide on maternal mental illness around the time of pregnancy.
Kelly A. Metcalfe is a Canadian scientist. She is a professor at the University of Toronto and at Women's College Hospital.
Paula Ann Rochon is a Canadian geriatrician. She is the Retired Teachers of Ontario/ERO Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Reina Bendayan is a Canadian pharmacologist. She is a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto and Career Scientist at the Ontario HIV Treatment Network.
Rachel Fynvola Tyndale is a Canadian pharmacogeneticist. She is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry,and Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Toronto and a Canada Research Chair in Pharmacogenomics. Tyndale is also the Senior Scientist and Head of Pharmacogenetics in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
Cheryl Tatano Beck is an American obstetric nurse. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut where she focuses on postpartum mood and anxiety disorders.
Janet Smylie a Métis family medicine physician. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Advancing Generative Health Services for Indigenous Populations in Canada at St. Michael's Hospital
