{
  "id": 9754035,
  "title": "Postnatal maternal separation alters caregiving patterns but fails to promote anxiety- and depressive-like behaviour in C57BL/6N mouse dams",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/postnatal-maternal-separation-alters-caregiving-patterns-but-fails-to",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-25T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.22.753354v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Stressors experienced during the postnatal period may increase vulnerability to mental health disorders, including postpartum depression and anxiety. In rodents, maternal separation (MS) has been shown to alter behaviours in dams, but these observations have been made almost exclusively in rats and thus robust mouse models of postpartum mental health disorders using this stressor remain limited.…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}