Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders According to Period of Prenatal Antidepressant Exposure: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Importance: Several studies have examined the links between prenatal exposure to antidepressants and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in children, with inconsistent results, especially regarding the impact of the trimester of exposure.

Objective: To perform a systematic review of the literature and a meta-analysis of published studies to assess the association between ASDs and fetal exposure to antidepressants during pregnancy for each trimester of pregnancy and preconception.

Data Sources: PubMed, EMBASE, and PsycINFO databases up to May 2016 were searched in June 2016 for observational studies.

Post-partum depressive symptoms and medically assisted conception: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Study Question: Does medically assisted conception increase the risk of post-partum depressive symptoms?

Summary Answer: Our literature review and meta-analysis showed no increased risk of post-partum depressive symptoms in women after medically assisted conception.

What Is Known Already: Women who conceive with medically assisted conception, which can be considered as a stressful life event, could face an increased risk of depressive symptoms. However, no previous meta-analysis has been performed on the association between medically assisted conception and post-partum depressive symptoms.

Postpartum electroconvulsive therapy: a systematic review and case report.

Objective: Postpartum depression can have devastating consequences on the mother and child. Prompt treatment is challenging. Whereas electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is considered to be an effective treatment modality in severe depression and brings about rapid clinical improvement, little is known about ECT during the postpartum period.

[Paternal postpartum depression: a review].

Postpartum depression affects 1 in 10 fathers worldwide. Paternal PPD tends to develop gradually during the first year. Maternal depression is one of the most important risk factors for depression in fathers.

Predictors of infant foster care in cases of maternal psychiatric disorders.

Purpose: Our aim was to investigate the factors associated with mother-child separation at discharge, after joint hospitalization in psychiatric mother-baby units (MBUs) in France and Belgium. Because parents with postpartum psychiatric disorders are at risk of disturbed parent-infant interactions, their infants have an increased risk of an unstable early foundation. They may be particularly vulnerable to environmental stress and have a higher risk of developing some psychiatric disorders in adulthood.

Inpatient mother-and-child postpartum psychiatric care: factors associated with improvement in maternal mental health.

Purpose: This study assessed the underexplored factors associated with significant improvement in mothers' mental health during postpartum inpatient psychiatric care.

Methods: This study analyzed clinical improvement in a prospective cohort of 869 women jointly admitted with their infant to 13 psychiatric Mother-Baby Units (MBUs) in France between 2001 and 2007. Predictive variables tested were: maternal mental illness (ICD-10), sociodemographic characteristics, mental illness and childhood abuse history, acute or chronic disorder, pregnancy and birth data, characteristics and mental health of the mother's partner, and MBU characteristics.

[Psychotic women and motherhood: what risks for the child?].

Desire for child in psychotic patients: what risks for the child? Here are two very different questions. When mentally ill patients express the desire to have a child, professionals are apprehensive regarding the child's future and express eugenics temptation. Nevertheless, it is a topical question as neuroleptic drugs efficiency as well as mental health policy encourage them to live as close to normality as possible.

[Short- and long-term consequences of prenatal exposure to cannabis].

Objective: Cannabis is one of the most commonly used drugs by pregnant women. The objective of this review of literature was to examine the association between cannabis use during pregnancy and effects upon growth, cognitive development (memory, attention, executive functions..

The history of Mother-Baby Units (MBUs) in France and Belgium and of the French version of the Marcé checklist.

Until fairly recently, mentally ill mothers were separated from their new-borns because of the potential danger to the baby. Over the past 50 years, however, we have learned more about the perinatal period, with the development of child psychiatry and interest in maternal postpartum disorders. This knowledge has led psychiatric departments to develop new ways to provide care without separating mentally ill mothers from their babies.

[The hospitalization of a mother and her infant in an adult psychiatric department].

In this article, the authors tell of experiences of hospitalizing mothers together with their newborn children in the psychiatric ward for adults in a general hospital in the Paris region since October 1980. They studied 52 cases, 42 of which were related to post-natal depression. This study develops hypotheses leading up to its implementation, describes how it is set up, and specifies the goals of hospitalizing the two together: not automatically separating a child from its mother who develops a psychiatric condition at such a vulnerable age, observing how mother and child interact, evaluating the mother's nurturing skills and how the baby functions, taking therapeutic action for the mother and for the mother-child relationship, and allowing preventive action, a general prevention of mental illness.

[2 cases of amineptine dependence].

We relate two cases of amineptine (Survector) overconsumption by patients cured for atypical depression with asthenia and activities deficit as the prevalent symptoms. Prescription of two tablets a day (0,200 g) was respected in one case during six months, and in the other case during two years, with therapeutic benefit on apragmatism. To no obvious reason, within few months both patients had gradually raised the doses to twenty tablets (2 g) and thirty tablets (3 g) respectively: we observed subexcitation, insomnia, sensorial hyperaesthesia, irritability, tachyphemia with dysarthria, anorexia with weight lost of more than 10 kg and amphetamine-like troubles without confusion or delusion, as a result of which both patients were treated for their addiction, in hospital.