BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety symptoms are commonly experienced by women during the perinatal period. Changes in sleep and sleep quality are typical throughout pregnancy and early postpartum. However, little is known about relationships between insomnia symptoms and psychiatric symptoms in perinatal women. The objective of the present study is to characterize the burden of insomnia symptoms...

This month's CNS Spectrums examines cholinergic mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia, how attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may complicate the course of other psychiatric illness, whether serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) may induce spontaneous abortions, treatment-resistant obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD), and how silent brain lesions can present as psychiat...

CONTEXT Affective disorders are common in women, with many episodes having an onset in pregnancy or during the postpartum period. OBJECTIVE To investigate the occurrence and timing of perinatal mood episodes in women with bipolar I disorder, bipolar II disorder, and recurrent major depression (RMD). SETTING AND PATIENTS Women were recruited in our ongoing research on the genetic and nongenetic ...

introduction: vulnerability has an important role in ptsd, which can be either genetic or acquisitive. according to research, the disorder coexists simultaneously with at least another psychiatric disorder and can be a disorder comorbid with a predictive factor, which influences the process from afflicting to medication. this study was performed to determine ptsd accompanying disorders in the p...

To the Editor: The pharmacologic management of bipolar disorder in women who wish to conceive poses a difficult dilemma for the patient, her partner, and the clinician.1 If psychotropic medication is discontinued, the patient is as likely to develop a recurrence during pregnancy as a nonpregnant woman,2,3 and immediately after childbirth she is more likely to become ill than remain well.3 Howev...