Again, we have a lot of really interesting articles. New week, we will review the study looking at motor development in children prenatally exposed to SSRIs. We will talk more about this in our review [...]
There are lots of new articles to review -- partly because I haven’t had a chance to pull together the “weekly” roundup for a while, but also because there continues to be a huge number [...]
This week’s roundup includes a series of articles on depression in menopausal women. Reducing depression during the menopausal transition with health coaching: Results from the healthy menopausal transition randomised controlled trial. Almeida OP, Marsh K, [...]
Heading the list are two important reviews: one on postpartum psychosis from the American Journal of Psychiatry and another on the topic of perinatal suicide. On the list, you will also find several interesting [...]
Lately we are seeing more articles about postpartum anxiety. Although we typically emphasize postpartum depression, many women experience clinically significant symptoms of anxiety during pregnancy and the postpartum period. This week we have one article [...]
In this week’s roundup, there are several interesting reviews. The first is from van der Zee-van den Berg AI (and colleagues with equally long names) on screening for postpartum depression at well-baby visits. From [...]
This week brings a large scale study on the reproductive safety of the newer atypical antipsychotic medications from Huybrechts and colleagues. To date, this is the largest sample of antipsychotic-exposed infants assessed, and the results [...]
Several of this week’s articles look at the impact of maternal depression on the child. In the Journal of Pediatrics, Braungart-Rieker and colleagues explore how postpartum depression leads to parenting practices and behaviors which may [...]
This week brings another report from the SWAN study of midlife women indicating that menopausal symptoms are heterogeneous, with a significant proportion of women experiencing symptoms for many years. There is also a very good [...]
It’s a quiet week in the world of women’s mental health. Good time to catch up on reading. Behavioral outcomes in children exposed prenatally to lamotrigine, valproate, or carbamazepine. Deshmukh U, Adams J, Macklin [...]
