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 [...]
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’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This Week in Women's Mental Health Another busy week. There are several interesting articles which look at non-pharmacological treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Yoga and other complementary treatments show promise but the [...]
Although there are data to support the use of many different antidepressants and other psychotropic medications, many women and their providers would prefer to avoid the use of medications during pregnancy. Options for non-pharmacologic treatment [...]
In a large study from France (Blotière et al, 2019), researchers demonstrated that exposure to monotherapy with valproic acid was associated with 8 specific types of major congenital malformations (e.g., spina bifida, OR 19.4), and [...]
 Ketamine is the hot new antidepressant. It has been shown to work quickly in patients with severe depression and can rapidly reduce suicidal ideation. However, these studies have not been conducted in perinatal women; [...]
This week’s roundup features a slight variation on our weekly roundup.  Rather than having to plow through a long list of articles, they are now separated into categories.  We are all inundated with information these [...]
Several articles on the list look at the impact of maternal depression on children’s development.  While previous studies have focused on the impact of postpartum depression, O’Leary and colleagues focus on the impact of depression [...]
