Mdedge Psychcast

Ruta Nonacs, MD, PhD, conducts a Masterclass lecture on treating women with postpartum depression from the Psychopharmacology Update in Cincinnati. The meeting was sponsored by Global Academy for Medical Education and Current Psychiatry. Dr. Nonacs is a staff psychiatrist with the Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Clinical Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.  *  *  *   Help us make this podcast better! Please take this short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/podcastsurveyOct2019 *  *  *   Features of postpartum depression  Postpartum depression (PPD) affects 10%-15% of women after delivery. For many women, their depression starts in the third trimester and worsens after delivery. Unique symptoms of PPD include difficulties bonding with the baby, feeling like an inadequate mother, and experiencing severe sleep disturbance with anxiety and edginess. In a common scenario, the mother will not be able to sleep at night, though her baby is sleeping well. Anxiety is a co