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	<title>MGH Center for Women's Mental Health &#187; Mood Stabilizers</title>
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		<title>Prenatal Use of Atypical Antipsychotics:  Effect on Birth Weight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Atypical antipsychotic medications are commonly used for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.  Despite the increasing use of these medications in women of child-bearing age, there is still relatively little data addressing the reproductive safety of these medications.
Newham and colleagues studied a group of infants with in utero exposure to atypical antipsychotic medications (n=45) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Health Parity in Massachusetts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent changes expanded the scope of mental health parity in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which requires insurance companies to cover specified diagnoses on a “nondiscriminatory basis”. This means that copayments, deductibles, coinsurance, unit of service limits- such as hospital days and outpatient visits, and/or annual or lifetime maximums are no greater for mental disorders when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case: Prevention of Mood Episodes When Planning for Pregnancy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry team often discusses clinical cases in Rounds, a confidential forum in which we can get advice and consultation from peers who also work in the area of Women&#8217;s Mental Health.  We discussed a patient&#8217;s situation recently that highlighted the controversial area about how to prevent mood episodes in a woman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bipolar Disorder and PMS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Premenstrual worsening of mood is common among women with depression, but little is known about how often women with bipolar disorder experience worsening of their mood premenstrually. In a study by Payne et al. (2007), premenstrual symptoms were reported by twice as many women diagnosed with mood disorders (mixture of  Bipolar Disorder and Major Depressive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bipolar Disorder and Pregnancy: Should Medications Be Discontinued?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of the traditional mood stabilizers used to treat bipolar disorder, including lithium and valproic acid, carry some teratogenic risk and the reproductive safety of other medications, including the atypical antipsychotic agents, has not been well-characterized, many women with bipolar disorder decide to discontinue their treatment during pregnancy. A new study from Dr. Adele [...]]]></description>
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