Kinsey researcher receives grant to study causes of PPD
Indiana Daily Student
June 8, 2009
By Kevin Doran
Last month, assistant research scientist Heather Rupp of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction received a $423,500 grant to study the poorly understood biological mechanisms behind postpartum depression. The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the grant money to fund research on the still-unknown cause of postpartum depression. Rupp and her co-investigators will be using functional magnetic resonance imaging scans to observe how a hormone called oxytocin, an important chemical during the period following birth, works in a woman suffering from postpartum depression.
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