The management of mood disorders in pregnancy: Alternatives to antidepressants

CNS Spectrums

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 261-271

  Richards, Erica M ^a   Payne, Jennifer L ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

depression; holistic; mood disorder; Peripartum; persistent pulmonary hypertension; poor neonatal adaptation

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; FOLIC ACID; HERBACEOUS AGENT; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PAROXETINE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ACUPUNCTURE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DEPRESSION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG USE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM; KINESIOTHERAPY; LIGHT BOX THERAPY; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MATERNAL CARE; NEWBORN DISEASE; PERSISTENT PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; POOR NEONATAL ADAPTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIDE EFFECT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHOTOTHERAPY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84884634524     PISSN: 10928529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1092852913000151     Document Type: Review

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