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To Reduce Anxiety During Pregnancy, Make Sleep a Priority

In a study published recently in Sleep, the researchers, including senior author and psychiatrist Mary Kimmel, MD, PhD, at WashU Medicine, and psychologist Rebecca Cox, PhD, in Arts & Sciences, surveyed about 230 women during early and late pregnancy and the early and later postpartum period to see how sleep disruption correlates with anxiety and OCD symptoms.

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