Mental Illness, Women, Mothers and their Children

Textbook in Psychiatric Epidemiology: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 483-515

  Abel, Kathryn M ^a   Morgan, Vera A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complex processes, impinging on the mother affecting the child; Epidemiology of mental illness in women of reproductive age; Fertility and fecundity in women with mental illness subject to debate; Gene environment interactions and offspring outcomes prenatal exposures, and rearing environment and exposure to stressors and adversity; Mental illness, women, mothers and their children; Pregnancy outcomes for mothers with mental illness; Sex and age at onset differences in clinical presentation key biomarkers; Understanding better such processes and how they maybe linked; Ways in which epidemiology in understanding experiences of mental illness for women; Women with a mental illness being pregnant, a high risk group of mothers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875950145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470976739.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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