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Using a Murine Model of Psychosocial Stress in Pregnancy as a Translationally Relevant Paradigm for Psychiatric Disorders in Mothers and Infants
Published on: June 13, 2021
Postpartum mental syndromes
Abstract:
Recent evidence suggests that parturition is a precipitating factor against a background of an inherited or acquired host constitution predisposing to emotional disorder. Postpartum mental illness is a spectrum of syndromes ranging from the fairly benign transient "blues" to more severe affective, organic or schizophreniform psychoses. Neuroendocrine factors may be the underlying etiologic agent. Treatment may involve support and reassurance, formal psychotherapy or psychotropic and somatic therapies.
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