Early pospartum alexithymia and risk for depression: Relationship with serum thyrotropin, free thyroid hormones and thyroid autoantibodies

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 519-533

  Le Donne, Maria ^a   Settineri, Salvatore ^a   Benvenga, Salvatore ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Depressed mood; Postpartum mood disorders; Thyroid autoantibodies; Thyroid autoimmunity; Thyroid function; Thyroid hormones; Thyrotropin

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONTGOMERY ASBERG DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; PUERPERIUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AUTOANTIBODIES; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 84857191336     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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