Are symptom features of depression during pregnancy, the postpartum period and outside the peripartum period distinct?
This study suggests that the clinical presentation of depressive symptoms in women of childbearing age does not differ during pregnancy, the postpartum period and outside the peripartum period. These findings do not provide psychometric support for the inclusion of the peripartum onset specifier for major depressive disorder in the DSM-5.
Our finding that DCs are directly affected by EPO renders them as potential candidates that mediate the immunomodulatory actions of EPO.