7 results match your criteria: "UNC Center for Women's Mood Disorders[Affiliation]"

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  • This article explores new neurosteroid treatments for postpartum depression (PPD), highlighting their development, clinical trial results, and future prospects in the field.
  • It specifically covers brexanolone, the first FDA-approved fast-acting antidepressant for PPD, its clinical trials, and the challenges associated with its intravenous administration.
  • The article also discusses exciting advancements like zuranolone and ganaxolone, emphasizing the role of GABA signaling and inflammation in depressive disorders to potentially improve treatments for PPD and major depressive disorders.
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The Lactational Effects of Contraceptive Hormones: an Evaluation (LECHE) Study.

Contraception

July 2019

University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute, Gillings School of Public Health.

Objective: To estimate the proportion of women for whom use of hormonal contraception was associated with reporting a decreased breast milk supply.

Study Design: The Lactational Effects of Contraceptive Hormones: an Evaluation ("LECHE") Study was an anonymous, internet-based, exploratory, cross-sectional survey of postpartum women using approximately 70 questions. Women were eligible to participate in the survey if they were 18 years or older, had a singleton infant between 3 and 9 months of age, had breastfed this infant for any amount of time and could read English.

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A latent class analysis of brief postpartum psychiatric hospital admissions.

Psychiatry Res

April 2018

Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Women's College Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address:

Almost 40% of postpartum psychiatric hospital admissions are brief, lasting 72h or less. We aimed to identify unique subgroups of women within this group to inform better intervention. All women in Ontario, Canada with a brief postpartum psychiatric admission (≤ 72h) (2007-2012)(N = 631) were studied using latent class analysis.

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Short stay vs long stay postpartum psychiatric admissions: a population-based study.

Arch Womens Ment Health

August 2017

Reproductive Life Stages Program, Women's Mental Health Program, Women's College Hospital, 76 Grenville street Rm. 7234, Toronto, ON, M5S 1B2, Canada.

About 1-2/1000 of postpartum women require psychiatric admission. Length of stay is variable, and little is known about short postpartum admission. From all women in Ontario, Canada, with a psychiatric admission within 1 year postpartum (2007-2012) (n = 1702), we compared women with admissions <72 h to women with longer admissions on sociodemographics, clinical characteristics and post-discharge mental health service use.

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