معرفی
Vaheshta Sethna serves as Senior Lecturer in Family Perinatal Mental Health Education at King's College London's Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre. Her academic work bridges psychiatry, neuroscience, and developmental psychology with focus on maternal mental health trajectories.
Her research spans Perinatal Mental Health, Postpartum Depression, Antenatal Depression, and Child Neurodevelopment, investigating biological mechanisms like blood transcriptomic signatures (PRAM-D study) and placental pathology impacts. She examines psychosocial determinants including intellectual disability in pregnancy and cross-cultural interventions.
Recent publications (2023-2025) demonstrate methodological diversity through systematic reviews, cohort studies, and feasibility trials. Key trends include biomarker discovery for depression risk prediction, neurodevelopmental outcomes linked to placental function, and digital mental health interventions for antenatal populations across global contexts.
Dr. Sethna has supervised 4 students and led the project The impact of mother-infant and father-infant interactions on infant brain development (2015-2016). Her grant portfolio includes the PRAM-D study examining depression in pregnancy through multi-omics approaches.
She contributes to King's College London's Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, participating in interdisciplinary teams focused on perinatal mental health innovation and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals related to maternal-child wellbeing.
