Low maternal plasma fT4 concentrations during early pregnancy may be an important risk factor for impaired infant development.

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Personality may be an important and stable determinant of postpartum depression. The combination of high neuroticism and high introversion considerably improved the risk estimates for clinical depression across the first year postpartum.

Women at high risk and low risk for depression during the early postpartum period can be detected during pregnancy. High-risk women were only at particular risk during the first 3 months postpartum.

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Patient preference for counselling is an important predictor of postpartum depression in pregnant women at high risk for postpartum depression. Patient preferences may reflect validly a perceived need for intervention in high-risk women. This finding emphasises the need to take patient preference for counselling into account as an important variable to identify a high-risk population.

Children and adolescents; liaison and consultation psychiatry; disorders of reproduction; ... in the metropolitan area of the city of Milan. Italy were studied. Results showed that comorbidity for DSM Ill-R diagnoses was 92% with 31% and 70% of the subjects showing respectively Axis I & n psychiatric disorder. No statistically significant differences were found between HIV seropositive and HIV seronegative individuals with regard to psychiatric comorbidity. Further work should aim to clarify factors that are associated with psychiatric comorbidity and therapeutic compliance in individuals with a triple diagnosis of drug abuse, psychiatric disorder, and HIV infection.