Posted on May 15, 2012
In this essay published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Helen Kim (an alumna of the CWMH) discusses the challenges of treating women with severe psychiatric illness during pregnancy:
“Would a physician tell a pregnant woman with epilepsy, ‘Stop your meds and ride out the seizures until you deliver’? Are the medications of pregnant women with mental illness somehow more “optional”?”
Read the full article here.
Posted on May 7, 2012
Antenatal exposure to Wellbutrin (bupropion) does not appear to be associated with an increased risk of malformations in the exposed infant; however, it is not known if exposure to Wellbutrin ...
Posted on April 25, 2012
While a handful of studies have assessed the risk for congenital malformations in infants exposed to antipsychotic agents, there is even less information ...
Posted on March 21, 2012
The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) has updated its 2010 recommendations regarding the use of postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT) based on evidence accumulated subsequent to the previous report. In ...
Posted on March 13, 2012
At MGH, we have Rounds weekly. For 2-3 hours per week, we discuss clinical cases, papers that come out in our field, and discuss our research. We have a relatively ...
Posted on March 1, 2012
Since starting this website 8 years ago, the number of articles relevant to the field of reproductive psychiatry has increased dramatically. In the beginning, there were one or two articles ...
Posted on February 13, 2012
A few years ago on our blog, we reviewed a paper suggesting that estrogen may be a beneficial treatment for women with schizophrenia. In this study patients with schizophrenia ...
Posted on February 9, 2012
We want to thank those of you who have continued to subscribe to our blog and who have visited our website. Some have written noting particular interest in the research conducted ...
Posted on February 8, 2012
Topiramate (marketed as a Topamax), in addition to its use for the treatment of epilepsy, is now being prescribed to reproductive aged women for a broad spectrum of indications, including ...
Posted on January 26, 2012
A few weeks after the FDA called into question the association between SSRI exposure and persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn or PPHN, BMJ published another article supporting an ...