Minneapolis St. Paul Mental Health Blog

Mental Health | Mothers with depression take longer to respond to their infant children than mothers without depression, according to a University of Missouri longitudinal study published in Infant and Child Development.

Mental Health | Mothers with depression take longer to respond to their infant children....

..than mothers without depression, according to a University of Missouri longitudinal study published in Infant and Child Development.

Young women and girls with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) taking oral combined hormonal contraception (HC) have a 6 times higher risk of depression...

...than those without ADHD taking oral combined HC, according to a recent cohort study.

Mental Health | The onset of major depression can vary widely with gender appearing to play a role in how the condition manifests.

Depression is a heterogeneous disease that continues to be diagnosed by patient reported symptoms rather than any pathopsychological marker or neurobiological etiology.1

Mental Health Matters | A group of children exposed to selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) before birth had better thinking and attention skills at age 12, compared with other children,

...according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2018 Meeting in Toronto, Canada.

Women over age 65 dealing with hot flashes and other treatable symptoms of low estrogen are more likely to also have moderate or severe depression...

Does longer exposure to estrogen during a woman’s adult life may provide protection against depression during menopause and post-menopause?