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For decades scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of postpartum depression, including why it strikes some women and not others. The illness - marked by intense feelings of sadness and even thoughts of harming a child or oneself - can be devastating to mothers, newborns and entire families. Now, emerging research may hold answers. Although postpartum depression has commonly been linked to the hormonal fluctuations of pregnancy, scientists say that the immune system may play a much larg

The researchers developed a comprehensive biological model which explains the different ways in which depression develops around and after birth.

A young couple silhouetted at Jerusalem’s Light Festival. Photo by Mendy Hechtman/FLASH90 A collaborative study led by Prof. Gurit Birnbaum, head of the experimental psychology program at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, indicates that women don’t find “responsiveness” in a man to be sexually appealing. Published in July in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the research project involved three studies, one observational and two experimental. In the first stud...