"Do the benefits of treating depressed pregnant women with antidepressants outweigh the risks of the drug exposure to their babies in terms of neonatal health and long-term development?...
"A novel event at the meeting will be a demonstration by masters-level clinicians and an actress showing new evidence-based behavioral psychotherapy techniques...."
"Does the benefit of treating women for depression with medication outweigh the risk to the baby? That's the critical question we have not yet answered."...
"The meeting, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, will include the following topics:
- New research about how the exposure and experience the fetus has during growth in utero programs its lifelong health—a new area known as fetal programming
- Psychological research about the effect of severe stress and anxiety on fetal development
- How to evaluate the risk and benefits of antidepressant treatment for each individual pregnant patient
- Brain imaging studies in maternal mental health
- New psychotherapy techniques: prevention of depression in pregnancy with mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy, a web-based approach for treatment of postpartum depression, face-to-face psychotherapy and a telephone-based approach"
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-depressed-pregnant-women-infants.html
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