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Postnatal depression.
INTRODUCTION The differentiation between postnatal depression and other types of depression is often unclear, but there are treatment issues in nursing mothers that do not apply in other situations. Overall, the prevalence of depression in postpartum women is the same as the prevalence in women generally, at about 12-13%. Suicide is a major cause of maternal mortality in resource-rich countries...
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Depression is common in thepostpartumperiod. It can be severe and may have serious consequences for the woman and her child. The term postnatal depression, however, is often applied indiscriminately to all occurrences of psychological distress after childbirth. It is important to identify and to treat postnatal depression—recently published National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ...
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Background: Approximately 10% 15% of mothers and 10% of fathers suffer from depressive symptoms during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Both maternal and paternal postnatal depression impact adversely on the family and the child’s behavioural development. The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is a widely used instrument for the measurement of risk for postnatal depression and the ...
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Unsatisfactory clinical efficacy and a variety of adverse effects of current antidepressant drugs have incited search for better therapy. Zinc, an antagonist of the glutamate/N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor, exhibits antidepressant-like activity in rodent tests/models of depression. Similarly to antidepressants, zinc induces brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene expression and incr...
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BACKGROUND Depression is a leading source of morbidity and health loss in Australian women. This study investigates the determinants of antenatal depressive symptoms and postnatal depressive symptoms in an Australian population, including people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. METHOD The study used a retrospective cohort of mothers of all live births in public h...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.156.3.451