Year: 1977
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Eighteen women aged 18-31 years were studied daily during the second to fifth postpartum days to assess mood changes and plasma tryptophan and cortisol concentrations. Psychiatric rating scales, clinical interviews, and published biochemical methods were used. Over the period plasma free tryptophan concentrations tended to rise and plasma cortisol concentrations to decline. There was a positive correlation between plasma free tryptophan concentrations and mood state.
Source: BMJ
Authors: S L Handley, T L Dunn, J M Baker, C Cockshott, S Gould
Institutions: King's College London, King's College Hospital, Warwick Hospital
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2012153836