The first two studies highlight the issues we face with regard to taking care of women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Â Women who screen positive for postpartum depression often do not seek or are [...]
Some interesting articles this week: understanding the impact of anxiety disorders on pregnancy outcomes (Yonkers et al), impact of antenatal exposure to antidepressants during pregnancy on risk of subsequent psychiatric illness in the child (Liu [...]
A new study looks at the effects of telephone-delivered depression care management in postpartum women. Â The July issue of Birth Defects Research features a collection of reviews on perinatal mental health. Â Telephone-Based Depression Care [...]
Brandlistuen and colleagues look at the long-term effects of prenatal exposure to benzodiazepines and sedative-hypnotics, attempting to control for genetic and environmental confounds by using sibling-controlled comparisons. Â Using data from Danish registers, Liu and colleagues [...]
This week brings some interesting reviews on the use of ECT during pregnancy (Thyen et al) and the impact of maternal PTSD on child outcomes (Cook et al). Â Also worth reading are two articles -- [...]
A light week. Untreated perinatal paternal depression: Effects on offspring. Gentile S, Fusco ML.Psychiatry Res. 2017 Jun;252:325-332. Review. Â Untreated perinatal paternal depression negatively affects child development. Â Family-centred approaches may improve the effectiveness of perinatal mental [...]
There a few new articles on the impact of antidepressant use during pregnancy. Â Viktorin and colleagues demonstrated no increase in risk for intellectual disability in children with prenatal exposure to antidepressants. Â Rai and colleagues demonstrated [...]
Happy Fourth of July! Â This week there are several articles on the use of antipsychotics during pregnancy (Tosato et al and Park et al). The highlight of this week is an article from Man and [...]
This roundup has some really interesting and clinically relevant  articles.  The first one, from Palomo and colleagues, evaluates risk for cardiovascular malformations in children prenatally exposed to lithium.  Yang and colleagues look at neonatal discontinuation [...]
Sometimes a weekly roundup turns into a monthly roundup.  Sorry about that.  From  the PACT Consortium, we have a study defining distinct subtypes of perinatal depression which differ in terms of severity and timing of [...]
