Journal of International Psychiatry

Postpartum depression (PPD), as one of the most common complications after delivery, has an increased incidence year by year, but the neurological mechanism of the disease is still not clear.Neuroimaging technology is used to explore the changes of brain function and metabolism, and is gradually applied in PPD research.There are differences between PPD patients in the limbic system and default network and other brain areas related to emotion regulation and memory and healthy women. This difference not only affects the health of PPD patients but also affects the mother-infant relationship. This article reviews the latest advances in the neuroimaging research of PPD. In-depth study of the neural circuit mechanism of PPD will help provide new targets for the diagnosis and treatment of PPD.

Postpartum depression；Brain structure; Brain function; Cerebral metabolic；