The Link Between shifts in your Immune System in Pregnancy & PPD: Conversation with Dr. Lauren Osborne, MD

​There are many routes to depression, in  pregnancy and postpartum, and one route that we focus on today is that of immune dysregulation. Pregnancy is a time of real immune disruption as your body shifts its resources to protect the baby from the mother's body, and the mother's body from infectious agents in the environment. Researchers think that how these shifts play out can contribute to the risk of developing depression after pregnancy. Today I talk to one of those researchers, in the hunt for a blood test to predict postpartum depression.To follow more of Dr. Osborne's work, you can find her here: https://pippilab.weill.cornell.edu/team/lauren-m-osborne-md