Depressive Symptoms Related to Infertility and Infertility Treatments

Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 309-321

  Wilkins, Kirsten M ^a   Warnock, Julia K ^a   Serrano, Elka ^b  

^a University of Oklahoma Tulsa College of Medicine   (United States)

^b Family and Children's Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Depression; In vitro fertilization; Infertility; Mood disorders

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; CABERGOLINE; CLOMIFENE; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; GONADORELIN; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METFORMIN; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE;

AMENORRHEA; ANOVULATION; ANXIETY DISORDER; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERANDROGENISM; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INSOMNIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE INFERTILITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OOCYTE DONATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION INDUCTION; OVULATION INHIBITION; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; CLOMIPHENE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951439147     PISSN: 0193953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psc.2010.01.009     Document Type: Review

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