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Mood disorders in women /
This book presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the subject. Steiner, Yonkers and Eriksson have brought together an international team of experts to produce a study ranging from cutting edge research to evidence-based clinical information relevant to the entire spectrum of female m...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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London : Malden, MA :
M. Dunitz ; Distributed in the United States by Blackwell Science,
c2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Epidemiology of mood disorders in women
- Ch. 2. Gender differences in the prevalence and correlates of mood disorders in the general population
- Ch. 3. Evolutionary concepts of gender differences in depressive disorders
- Ch. 4. Neuroanatomical sex differences
- Ch. 5. The functional neurochemistry of mood disorders in women
- Ch. 6. Grief and bereavement in women
- Ch. 7. Gender differences in dysthymia
- Ch. 8. Unipolar depression in women
- Ch. 9. Bipolar illness
- Ch. 10. Seasonal affective disorder
- Ch. 11. Depression in the elderly
- Ch. 12. Female sex steroids, the brain and behaviour
- Ch. 13. Oestrogens, progestins and mood
- Ch. 14. Behavioural effects of androgens in women
- Ch. 15. Menarche and mood disorders in adolescence
- Ch. 16. Premenstrual dysphoria and related conditions: symptoms, pathophysiology and treatment
- Ch. 17. Psychopharmacological treatment of mood and anxiety disorders during preganancy
- Ch. 18. Postpartum psychiatric disorders
- Ch. 19. The use of psychiatric medications during breast-feeding
- Ch. 20. Pregnancy loss
- Ch. 21. Anxiety and depression in subfertility
- Ch. 22. The perimenopause
- Ch. 23. Personality disorders
- Ch. 24. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
- Ch. 25. Obesity, weight gain and dieting
- Ch. 26. Alcohol and drug abuse in women
- Ch. 27. Pain: adding to the affective burden
- Ch. 28. Psychoneuroimmunology: implications for mood disorders
- Ch. 29. Sex differences in the psychopharmacological treatment of depression
- Ch. 30. Psychosocial treatments for mood disorders in women
- Ch. 31. Sociogeopolitical issues.