Psychiatric aspects of women's health

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dc.contributor.authorStein D.J.
dc.contributor.authorNair M.G.
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-15T15:59:18Z
dc.date.available2011-05-15T15:59:18Z
dc.date.issued2000
dc.description.abstractA number of psychiatric disorders are present exclusively or more commonly in women. Furthermore, within a particular disorder there may be significant gender differences across demographic and clinical variables, and neurobiological fluctuations across women's menstrual and life cycles may affect the psychobiology of disorders and the pharmacokinetics of pharmacotherapies. Indeed, exploration of gender may serve as a useful heuristic for advancing the field as a whole and for integrating epidemiological and psychobiological data. In this supplement, we highlight three issues that fall under the rubric of 'women's mental health': premenstrual dysphoric disorder, pharmacotherapy during pregnancy and lactation, and violent trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder in women. Although further work across the range of basic, clinical, and sociopolitical fronts is needed, advances in the pharmacotherapy of premenstrual dysphoric disorder, recent safety data on certain agents in pregnancy, and progress in the management of post-traumatic stress disorder provides cause for clinical optimism. © 2000 Lippincot Williams & Wilkins.
dc.description.versionReview
dc.identifier.citationInternational Clinical Psychopharmacology
dc.identifier.citation15
dc.identifier.citationSUPPL. 3
dc.identifier.issn2681315
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/11108
dc.subjectdysphoria
dc.subjectfemale
dc.subjecthuman
dc.subjectlactation
dc.subjectlife cycle
dc.subjectmenstrual cycle
dc.subjectmental disease
dc.subjectmental health
dc.subjectneurobiology
dc.subjectposttraumatic stress disorder
dc.subjectpregnancy
dc.subjectpremenstrual syndrome
dc.subjectpriority journal
dc.subjectpsychobiology
dc.subjectpsychopharmacotherapy
dc.subjectreview
dc.subjectsex difference
dc.subjectAdult
dc.subjectFemale
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectLactation
dc.subjectMental Disorders
dc.subjectPregnancy
dc.subjectPremenstrual Syndrome
dc.subjectPsychiatry
dc.subjectViolence
dc.subjectWomen's Health
dc.titlePsychiatric aspects of women's health
dc.typeReview
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