Neurodevelopment of children exposed in utero to antidepressant drugs

Abstract

S39. Affective disorders in the puerperium and the premenstruum: biological mechanisms and treatment reaction form model, though it has substantial heuristic value, and merits to be thoroughly scrutinized. (I) Van Praag HM (1997): Over the mainstream: diagnostic requirements for biological psychiatric research. Psychiat Res 72: 201-212. (2) Van Praag HM (1998): Inflationary tendencies in judging the yield of depression research. NeuropsychobioIogy. In press. S39. Affective disorders in the puerperium and the premenstruum: biological mechanisms and treatment Chairs: A Wieck (UK), G Koren (CDN)

Prenatal exposure to antidepressants and language competence at age three: results from a large population‐based pregnancy cohort in Norway

“…5 Available studies on language development in children exposed to antidepressants during pregnancy have shown no significant association between use of SSRIs and lower language competence. 6,7 In these studies the population size was small 6 or the language development was examined at an early age, the latest being 19 months. 7 In Norway, a large prospective population-based pregnancy cohort, the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), has been established.…”

Therapeutic Approaches for Depression During Pregnancy and Lactation

“…Their spouses can also participate in the group therapy. The couple therapy for marital relationships and family treatments can also be used [2,[8][9][10][11].…”

“…According to the report, 42% of the mothers who stopped taking antidepressant medications due to pregnancy resumed their intake of such medications during severe depression or with a high risk of recurrence of depression, both psychosocial treatments and pharmacotherapy are essential [6]. When the risk of committing suicide is high, or if the patient cannot undergo pharmacotherapy or does not respond to the aforesaid therapies, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can be considered [10,11]. The details of a depression treatment strategy are as follows.…”

Antenatal Exposure to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Duration of Gestation

“…Some, [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] but not all, [11][12][13][14][15][16][17] studies suggest that the use of SSRIs during pregnancy increases the risk of preterm delivery; in the positive studies, the risk appears to be approximately doubled, on average, in SSRIexposed relative to unexposed women. An important limitation of these studies is that all were observational in design.…”