Investigating Learning, Decision-Making, and Mental Health in Pregnancy: Insights From a UK Cohort Study
Our findings provide novel evidence regarding the role of the emotional context in learning and decision-making processes. For parents with depressive symptoms and personality difficulties, dampened responsivity to emotional feedback and inflexibility in updating beliefs about the values of actions may underlie fewer sensitive behaviours when interacting with their infants.
Authors
- Paul Moran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9257-8699)
- Casimir J. H. Ludwig (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4656-0751)
- Rebecca M. Pearson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8527-3400)
- Ilaria Costantini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1688-2963)
- Axel Montout (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7825-5244)
- Daphne Kounali (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6392-6690)
Institutions
- Manchester Metropolitan University (GB)
- University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (GB)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre (GB)
- University College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Computational Psychiatry
- Published
- 2025-09-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5334/cpsy.134
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.31