While we tend to think of sleep deprivation as a postpartum issue, sleep problems are relatively common during pregnancy, with 15% to 80% of women reporting sleep problems during the first trimester and 66% to [...]
According to a report published by the CDC in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the use of stimulant medications for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by reproductive-age women is on the rise. In [...]
We’d like to remind everybody about the upcoming one day course in Women’s Mental Health we will be offering in Boston on Thursday, October 17th. This is the day preceding the MGH Annual Psychopharmacology Conference [...]
Up to 80% of women experience symptoms as they transition into the menopause, including vasomotor symptoms, sleep disturbance, and depressive symptoms. While hormone replacement therapy and certain medications may be helpful, these interventions may have [...]
We’ve come a long way. Prior to the 1980s, most new mothers had never heard of postpartum depression. Over the last few decades we have made considerable progress in educating women about their risk for [...]
Brexanolone, marketed by Sage Therapeutics as Zulresso, was approved in March 2019, as a treatment for postpartum depression. It has been available for almost two months, and we are very eager to hear about patients’ [...]
It seems that there is considerable variation in the estimated prevalence of suicidal ideation in pregnant and postpartum women across studies. One element that may contribute to this variation is how we assess for this [...]
Opioid use in pregnant women is a significant public health concern. A recent study observed that one out of five pregnant women (21.6%) filled a prescription for an opioid and 2.5% received a chronic opioid [...]
Increasing numbers of peri- and post-menopausal women request “bioidentical” rather than synthetic hormones. Although there is a tendency to think of bioidentical hormones as “all-natural”, they, like synthetic hormones, are manufactured in the laboratory. In [...]
We have recently seen an increased interest in the subject of perinatal anxiety. While we have focused more on depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms are actually very common during pregnancy and the postpartum period. According to [...]
