In the United States, about one out of every 160 pregnancies ends in stillbirth, defined as a pregnancy loss occurring after 20 weeks' gestation. Â Perinatal loss is a traumatic event for women and their families. [...]
Menstrual irregularities, including amenorrhea, are common among women with eating disorders. Â Given the menstrual abnormalities, there has been concern that women with eating disorders might be less likely to conceive naturally. A recent study has [...]
Research has suggested a relationship between the age at which a woman goes through menopause and her general cognitive functioning, specifically that better cognitive function is observed in women who enter into menopause at a [...]
This week, there are two very interesting articles on the importance of folic acid supplementation during pregnancy. Â Not only does folic acid reduce the risk of neural tube defects, it may affect other aspects of [...]
For clinicians who have not yet discovered the incredibly thoughtful and clinically practical monthly articles from Chittaranjan Andrade in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, it’s time to take a look.  (Not only are these articles [...]
This week we have several interesting and clinically relevant articles. Â We have long know that depression during pregnancy is one of the most robust predictors of postpartum depression; Lupattelli and colleagues demonstrate that treatment during [...]
Around 10 years ago, there was a series of publications suggesting a link between the use of serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants and bone loss in older women. Â One of the things that made it difficult [...]
Many or our patients, most of them mothers or mothers-to-be, have expressed distress and outrage related to this past week’s events at our southern border:  the separation of young immigrant children from their parents. Children [...]
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, here is another post about the use of marijuana during pregnancy. Â There are several reasons we keep coming back to this issue. There has been a [...]
While about 5% of women have premenstrual dysphoric disorder, we more commonly see women who experience premenstrual exacerbation of mood and anxiety disorders. Â A small study of 15 women with borderline personality disorder (who were [...]
