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Neurologic and mental disorders in pregnancy

Australia

• Women & Newborn Health Service - Western Australia
  • Perinatal Depressive and Anxiety Disorders Quick Reference Guide [2007]
  • Perinatal Depressive and Anxiety Disorders Clinical Guidelines [2007]

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
  • RANZCP Perinatal Mental Health Plan [2005]

Canada

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in pregnancy and infant outcomes [2011]

• Perinatal Services BC
  • Reproductive Mental Illness during the Perinatal Period: Principles and Framework [2003]
  • Psychotic Disorders [2003]
  • Major Depression [2003]
  • Identification and Assessment of Reproductive Mental Health Illness During the Preconception and Perinatal Periods [2003]
  • Discharge Planning and Community Follow - Up Guide [2003]
  • Anxiety Disorders [2003]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Preconception counselling for women with epilepsy to reduce adverse pregnancy outcome
  • Antipsychotic drugs for non-affective psychosis during pregnancy and postpartum
  • Antenatal psychosocial assessment for reducing perinatal mental health morbidity

New Zealand

• Auckland District Health Board
  • Guidelines for Babies of Mothers on Anticonvulsants [2002]

United Kingdom

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
  • Antenatal and postnatal mental health [2007]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Management of Women with Mental Health Issues during Pregnancy and the Postnatal Period [2011]

• Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • Perinatal mental health services. Recommendations for provision of services for childbearing women [2001]

United States of America

• American Academy of Neurology
  • Update: Management Issues for Women with Epilepsy-Focus on Pregnancy: Vitamin K, Folic Acid, Blood Levels, and Breastfeeding [2009]
  • Update: Management Issues for Women with Epilepsy-Focus on Pregnancy: Obstetrical Complications and Change in Seizure Frequency [2009]
  • Practice Parameter Update: Management issues for women with epilepsy-focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review): Teratogenesis and perinatal outcomes [2009]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Use of Psychoactive Medication During Pregnancy and Possible Effects on the Fetus and Newborn [2008]
  • Maternal Phenylketonuria [2008]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Practice parameter update: management issues for women with epilepsy-focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review): vitamin K, folic acid, blood levels, and breastfeeding. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee and Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and American Epilepsy Society [2009]
  • Practice parameter update: management issues for women with epilepsy--focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review): teratogenesis and perinatal outcomes. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee and Therapeutics and Technology Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and American Epilepsy Society [2009]
  • Practice parameter update: management issues for women with epilepsy--focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review): obstetrical complications and change in seizure frequency. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee and Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and American Epilepsy Society [2009]
  • Use of psychiatric medications during pregnancy and lactation. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2008]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Maternal mental health and child health and development in resource-constrained settings : report of a UNFPA/WHO international expert meeting : the interface between reproductive health and mental health [2009]

Articles in journals

• American Family Physician
  • Benefits and Risks of Psychiatric Medications During Pregnancy [2002]

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Risk factors for depressive symptoms during pregnancy: a systematic review [2010]

• American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Mortality in Offspring of Parents With Psychotic Disorders: A Critical Review and Meta-Analysis [2005]

• Australian Family Physician
  • Motherhood and mental illness – Part 1 – toward a general understanding [2009]
  • Motherhood and mental illness - Part 2 – management and medications [2009]

• Australian Prescriber
  • Antipsychotic drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding [2007]
  • Antidepressants in pregnancy and breastfeeding [2007]

• British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Exposure to obstetric complications and subsequent development of bipolar disorder: Systematic review [2006]
  • Effects of antenatal stress and anxiety: Implications for development and psychiatry [2002]

• British Medical Journal
  • Intrauterine exposure to carbamazepine and specific congenital malformations: systematic review and case-control study [2010]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Prevalence and determinants of common perinatal mental disorders in women in low- and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review [2012]
  • Maternal depression and early childhood growth in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis [2011]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Safety of triptans for migraine headaches during pregnancy and breastfeeding [2010]
  • Perinatal exposure to maternal lamotrigine: Clinical considerations for the mother and child [2010]
  • Paroxetine use in pregnancy and increased risk of heart defects: Evaluating the evidence [2010]
  • Antiepileptic drugs in pregnancy and hemorrhagic disease of the newborn: An update [2010]
  • Major malformations with valproic acid [2006]
  • Depression during pregnancy [2005]

• Canadian Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
  • Understanding and treating women with schizophrenia during pregnancy and postpartum--Motherisk Update 2008 [2009]
  • Risks/safety of psychotropic medication use during pregnancy--Motherisk Update 2008 [2009]
  • Mood disorders in women: focus on reproductive psychiatry in the 21st century--Motherisk update 2008 [2009]
  • Management of bipolar II disorder during pregnancy and the postpartum period--Motherisk Update 2008 [2009]
  • Depression during pregnancy: rates, risks and consequences--Motherisk Update 2008 [2009]
  • Adverse effects in neonates exposed to SSRIs and SNRI in late gestation--Motherisk Update 2008 [2009]

• Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • Is maternal use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the third trimester of pregnancy harmful to neonates? [2005]

• Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy: Current Controversies and Treatment Strategies [2009]

• Current Opinion in Neurology
  • Cognitive abilities and behaviour of children exposed to antiepileptic drugs in utero [2009]

• Infant Behavior and Development
  • Infants of Depressed Mothers Are Less Responsive To Faces and Voices: A Review [2009]

• Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada (JOGC)
  • Medications for restless legs syndrome in pregnancy [2008]
  • Does paroxetine cause cardiac malformations? [2008]

• Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
  • Management of Epilepsy and Pregnancy [2006]

• Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
  • Sleep and perinatal mood disorders: a critical review [2005]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Maternal mortality and psychiatric morbidity in the perinatal period: challenges and opportunities for prevention in the Australian setting [2007]

• New England Journal of Medicine
  • Valproic Acid Monotherapy in Pregnancy and Major Congenital Malformations [2010]

• Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey
  • How Disturbed Sleep May Be a Risk Factor for Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes A Hypothesis [2009]

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • Lamotrigine in pregnancy: safety profile and the risk of malformations [2007]

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