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 [...]
Each week, we take a quick look at the most recent articles published in women's mental health. Obstetrical and neonatal outcomes after benzodiazepine exposure during pregnancy: Results from a prospective registry of women with psychiatric [...]
In 2015, we first reported on SAGE-547 (SAGE Therapeutics), a new medication for the treatment of severe postpartum depression (PPD). SAGE-547, now called brexanolone, is an allosteric modulator of GABAA receptors. This drug was initially [...]
It’s been a while since we posted a weekly roundup.  Now that the new website is up, we are back on track.  In one of the few studies assessing the physical and cognitive development of [...]
A history of maternal psychiatric illness has been linked to postpartum depression (PPD), but this does not account for all instances of postpartum psychiatric illness. A recent study examined the impact of medical complications during [...]
