Maternity blues: Cross-cultural variations and emotional changes

Primary Care Update for Ob/Gyns

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 167-171

  Rondón, Marta B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^b NONE   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTROGEN; HYDROCORTISONE; PROGESTERONE;

ANXIETY; APPETITE; CHILDBIRTH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CRYING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYSPHORIA; EMOTIONALITY; FRANCE; GERMANY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; ITALY; JAMAICA; JAPAN; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MENTAL INSTABILITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUERPERAL PSYCHOSIS; PUERPERIUM; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TANZANIA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038350470     PISSN: 1068607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1068-607X(03)00029-5     Document Type: Article

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