This week we have a clinical feature article from the New England Journal of Medicine -- a clinically relevant review of postpartum depression from Donna Stewart and Simone Vigod. Â We will not have a [...]
Over the last week, there have been quite a few articles in the press detailing the increase in opioid use in the United States, focusing the impact of this epidemic on infants and children. According [...]
Early pregnancy loss (EPL) is common, affecting up to 25% of pregnancies. Â Studies looking at the emotional consequences of miscarriage have shown that most women do well; however, some women experience clinically significant symptoms of [...]
A quiet week.  Lancet Psychiatry has published a series of articles exploring the social and biological factors contributing to psychiatric illness in women.   Sex and gender differences in mental disorders. Riecher-Rössler A.  Lancet [...]
We are clearly making big strides in terms of increasing public awareness of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, but we still have a long way to go when it comes to providing access to mental [...]
The three primary methods of communication in the human body (nervous system, immune system, and endocrine system) are interconnected in a number of ways, and exposures that take place during critical windows of fetal development [...]
The Maternity Experiences Survey (MES) is a national survey of Canadian women’s experiences, perceptions, knowledge and practices before conception and during pregnancy, birth and the early months of parenthood. This is a project funded by [...]
Next week we will be reviewing two important articles which look at the effects of maternal depression on the developing brain of the child: one from Posner and colleagues and another from Lebel and colleagues. [...]
While we tend to think of sleep deprivation as a postpartum issue, a recent study from Finland indicates that sleep problems are relatively common during pregnancy, for both mothers and fathers. This study included 1667 [...]
An updated version of this post can be found HERE. Two thirds of all breast cancer tumors are known to have receptors that respond to hormones; that is they can grow in response to estrogen. [...]
