The Neurobiology of Postpartum Anxiety and Depression. Pawluski JL, Lonstein JS, Fleming AS. Trends Neurosci. 2017 Feb;40(2):106-120. Functional Recovery After Postpartum Psychosis: A Prospective Longitudinal Study. Burgerhout KM, Kamperman AM, Roza SJ, Lambregtse-Van den Berg [...]
 This week there are a few interesting articles on PMDD.  In the last edition of the DSM, PMDD was included as a formal diagnosis.  Several articles look at instruments which can be used to [...]
Happy New Year! Â We are not even three weeks into January, and it promises to be a busy year. Â At the top of the list is the study from Cantarutti and colleagues which observed that [...]
Happy New Year! It is that time of the year again when we take the time to look back and review the previous year. Â Probably the most striking thing I see is the sheer volume [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
We have seen articles over the last decade which suggest that while some women experience clinically significant psychological symptoms after early pregnancy loss, the vast majority of women manage to navigate this stressful life event [...]
There is an interesting article this week which looks at the long-term impact of prenatal depression on the developing fetus. Â Following children for 25 years, Plant and colleagues observed that the children exposed to maternal [...]
The first article on the list is one that relies on the Swedish medical registers to look neonatal outcomes in infants prenatally exposed to antidepressants. Â While the study does not generate new things to worry [...]
