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Advances in brain magnetic resonance imaging of postpartum depression
LI Yuna  MAO Ning  XIE Haizhu  CHE Kaili  CHU Tongpeng 

Cite this article as: Li YN, Mao N, Xie HZ, et al. Advances in brain magnetic resonance imaging of postpartum depression[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2021, 12(11): 101-104, 108. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2021.11.025.


[Abstract] At present, the pathogenesis of central nervous system of postpartum depression (PPD) is not clear, and there is a lack of objective indicators for diagnosis and prognosis. The continuous development of MRI technology provides an important tool for in-depth study of the neuropathological mechanism and neuroimaging abnormalities of PPD. This paper makes a literature investigation and summary on the brain imaging research of patients with PPD by multi-modal MRI technology, in order to help clinicians understand its progress.
[Keywords] postpartum depression；brain function；advances；magnetic resonance imaging, multimodal；functional magnetic resonance imaging

LI Yuna   MAO Ning   XIE Haizhu*   CHE Kaili   CHU Tongpeng  

Department of Radiology, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Qingdao University, Yantai 264000, China

Xie HZ, Email: xhz000417@sina.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82001775).
Received  2021-05-14
Accepted  2021-08-06
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2021.11.025
Cite this article as: Li YN, Mao N, Xie HZ, et al. Advances in brain magnetic resonance imaging of postpartum depression[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2021, 12(11): 101-104, 108. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2021.11.025.

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