Essential Reads: The Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Rule (PLLR)
The PLLR helps to put the potential effects of the drug into perspective with the goal of providing a more individualized risk-benefit analysis.
Essential Reads: What is the Best Screening Tool for Depression During Pregnancy?
Many women experience depression during pregnancy. What is the best way to identify these women?
Essential Reads: Keeping Up with the Medical Literature in Reproductive Psychiatry
There are many different sources of information, some better than others.
Essential Reads: Stress and Distress During Pregnancy—How to Protect Both Mother and Child
This article reviews the research on the effects of antenatal maternal psychological states on offspring.
Essential Reads: The Use of Trazodone During Pregnancy
More study is needed regarding the safety of sedative-hypnotic medications during pregnancy.
Essential Reads: Long-Term Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children with Prenatal Exposure to Antidepressants
While questions and controversies remain, the information on long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes in children prenatally exposed to antidepressants is largely reassuring.
Essential Reads: Lamotrigine (Lamictal) Dosing During Pregnancy
About 60% of women with mood disorders experience premenstrual exacerbation or PME of their mood during the premenstrual phase of their cycle.
Essential Reads – What’s the Difference Between PME and PMDD? How Should We Treat PME?
About 60% of women with mood disorders experience premenstrual exacerbation or PME of their mood during the premenstrual phase of their cycle.
Essential Reads – So Long 2021: The Year in Review
Looking back at 2021.
Essential Reads – Psychotropic Treatment During Pregnancy: Research Synthesis and Clinical Care Principles
This review article provides clinically relevant data but also helps the reader navigate some of the more controversial issues in the field.