PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Perinatal Psychiatry
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1650453
This article is part of the Research TopicPerinatal mental health: Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and FearView all 15 articles
Cognitive Biases: Potential Behavioral Marker for Future Development of Postpartum Depression and Childbirth Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Provisionally accepted
- 1University of Haifa The Integrated Brain and Behavior Research Center, Haifa, Israel
- 2University of Haifa Data Science Research Center, Haifa, Israel
- 3School of Psychological Science, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
- 4Technion Israel Institute of Technology The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
- 5Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
- 6Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
- 7Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Psychiatric Unit, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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Postpartum Depression (PPD) and Childbirth Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CB-PTSD) are psychiatric conditions that cause significant distress. Yet despite their high prevalence and decades of research, knowledge about causal cognitive mechanisms that may assist in predicting or preventing these conditions is still missing. One characteristic of PPD and CB-PTSD that may contribute to their early prevention is the existence of cognitive biases concerning future parenting.Cognitive biases have been shown to play an important role in the etiology of various other psychiatric disorders, including depression and PTSD, suggesting they might have a similar role in PPD and CB-PTSD. From a theoretical perspective, understanding the associations between cognitive biases, PPD, and CB-PTSD may lead to novel theoretical models and research avenues.Additionally, understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying PPD and CB-PTSD has several important clinical implications, such as early detection, preventative care, and developing individually tailored cognitive therapies focusing on these specific biases.
Keywords: postpartum depression, postnatal depression, childbirth post-traumatic stress disorder, cognitive biases, Preventative care, cognitive training, Attention bias, interpretation bias
Received: 19 Jun 2025; Accepted: 30 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Vanessa Cywiak, University of Haifa The Integrated Brain and Behavior Research Center, Haifa, Israel
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