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Australia

• Australian Family Physician
  • Management of bipolar disorder over the perinatal period [2016]
  • Epilepsy in pregnancy: a collaborative team effort of obstetricians, neurologists and primary care physicians for a successful outcome [2014]

• Centre of Perinatal Excellence
  • Mental health care in the perinatal period: Australian clinical practice guideline [2017]

• Department of Health Australia
  • Pregnancy care for women with severe mental illness [2018]
  • Assessing psychosocial factors that affect mental health [2018]

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

• O&G Magazine
  • Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders [2018]
  • Perinatal mental health: an area of specialty [2018]

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Mental Health Care in the Perinatal Period [2018]

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
  • Mothers, babies and psychiatric inpatient treatment [2015]

Canada

• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
  • Diagnosing Perinatal Patients with Anxiety: Guidelines [2018]

• CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • Perinatal suicide in Ontario, Canada: a 15-year population-based study [2017]

• Perinatal Services BC
  • Best practice guidelines for mental health disorders in the perinatal period [2014]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Pregnancy and Women's Mental Health in Canada

Developing countries

• 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]

Europe

• Journal of Headache and Pain
  • Latest clinical recommendations on valproate use for migraine prophylaxis in women of childbearing age: overview from European Medicines Agency and European Headache Federation [2018]

India

• Indian Journal of Pharmacology
  • Psychopharmacoteratophobia: Excessive fear of malformation associated with prescribing psychotropic drugs during pregnancy: An Indian perspective [2015]

International

• Archives of Women's Mental Health
  • An international position paper on mother-infant (perinatal) mental health, with guidelines for clinical practice [2016]

• International Journal of Women's Health
  • Epilepsy during pregnancy: focus on management strategies [2016]

Japan

• Journal of Clinical Medicine Research
  • Current Proportion of Women Receiving Perinatal Psychosocial or Psychological Intervention in Japan [2016]

• Neurologia medico-chirurgica
  • Cavernous Malformations in Pregnancy [2013]

Low and middle-income countries

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Maternal mental health in primary care in five low- and middle-income countries: a situational analysis [2016]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Interventions for common perinatal mental disorders in women in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2013]
  • Prevalence and determinants of common perinatal mental disorders in women in low- and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review [2012]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Psychosocial Interventions for Perinatal Common Mental Disorders Delivered by Providers Who Are Not Mental Health Specialists in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2013]

Nepal

• Nepal Journal of Epidemiology
  • Mental Health Issues in Pregnant Women in Nepal [2015]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Healthy Beginnings: Developing perinatal and infant mental health services in New Zealand [2012]

Norway

• PLoS ONE
  • Medication Use before, during, and after Pregnancy among Women with Eating Disorders: A Study from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study [2015]

Poland

• Ginekologia Polska
  • Managing epilepsy in women of childbearing age — Polish Society of Epileptology and Polish Gynecological Society Guidelines [2017]

• Psychiatria Polska
  • Recommendations of the Polish Psychiatric Association regarding the treatment of affective disorders in women of childbearing age. Part II: Bipolar disorder [2019]

Spain

• Sociedad Española de Neurología
  • The Spanish Society of Neurology's official clinical practice guidelines for epilepsy. Special considerations in epilepsy: Comorbidities, women of childbearing age, and elderly patients [2015]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy
  • Women with epilepsy in sub–Saharan Africa: A review of the reproductive health challenges and perspectives for management [2019]

Switzerland, United Kingdom

• Swiss Medical Weekly
  • Perinatal mental health service provision in Switzerland and in the UK [2015]

United Kingdom

• BMJ Open
  • A UK clinical audit addressing the quality of prescribing of sodium valproate for bipolar disorder in women of childbearing age [2018]

• British Association for Psychopharmacology
  • British Association for Psychopharmacology consensus guidance on the use of psychotropic medication preconception, in pregnancy and postpartum 2017 [2017]

• HSC Public Health Agency
  • Regional Perinatal Mental Health Care Pathway [2017]

• Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
  • Valproate medicines (Epilim, Depakote): contraindicated in women and girls of childbearing potential unless conditions of Pregnancy Prevention Programme are met [2018]
  • Valproate medicines (Epilim, Depakote): Pregnancy Prevention Programme materials online [2018]
  • Valproate and developmental disorders: new alert asking for patient review and further consideration of risk minimisation measures [2017]
  • Medicines related to valproate: risk of abnormal pregnancy outcomes [2015]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance [2018]
  • Antenatal and postnatal mental health [2016]

• NHS England
  • The Perinatal Mental Health Care Pathways [2018]
  • Sapropterin (Kuvan®) For Phenylketonuria: Use In Pregnancy [2013]

• PLoS ONE
  • Lithium Prescribing during Pregnancy: A UK Primary Care Database Study [2015]

• Public Health England
  • Perinatal mental health [2017]
  • Maternal Mental Health Pathway

• Royal College of General Practitioners
  • Perinatal Mental Health

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Valproate Use In Women and Girls Of Childbearing Years [2019]
  • Epilepsy in Pregnancy [2016]
  • Management of Women with Mental Health Issues during Pregnancy and the Postnatal Period [2011]

• Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • Perinatal mental health services: Recommendations for the provision of services for childbearing women [2015]

• Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
  • Management of perinatal mood disorders [2012]

United States of America

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Maternal Phenylketonuria [2013]
  • Use of Psychoactive Medication During Pregnancy and Possible Effects on the Fetus and Newborn [2008]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Management of Women With Phenylketonuria [2015]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Stressful Life Events Experienced by Women in the Year Before Their Infants' Births — United States, 2000–2010 [2015]

• Multiple Sclerosis International
  • What Do Healthcare Providers Advise Women with Multiple Sclerosis Regarding Pregnancy? [2014]

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