Therapeutic effects of folic acid on ante partum and postpartum depression

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 313-314

  Behzadi, Ashkan Heshmatzade ^a   Behbahani, Afsane Shariati ^a   Ostovar, Nima ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; FLUOXETINE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANTEPARTUM DEPRESSION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DEPRESSION; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MONOTHERAPY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; RECURRENCE RISK; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45849123853     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.03.029     Document Type: Letter

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