Postpartum depression: An essential overview for the practitioner

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 128-132

  McCoy, Sarah J Breese ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnosis of postpartum depression; etiology of postpartum depression; treatment of postpartum depression

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ENDORPHIN; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; MELATONIN; NEUROSTEROID; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE; SERTRALINE; THYROID ANTIBODY;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; ANHEDONIA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG SAFETY; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INSOMNIA; INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY; LACTATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MASSAGE; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; OBSTETRICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PEDIATRICIAN; PHYSICIAN; POSTPARTUM THYROIDITIS; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF ESTEEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP DISORDER; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TREATMENT INDICATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WELLBEING;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79251622027     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e318200c221     Document Type: Review

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