The American journal of psychiatry

OBJECTIVE: The authors compared the associated risk of incident depression between first-time users of low-, medium-, and high-dose levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine systems (LNG-IUSs). METHODS: This national cohort study was based on …

OBJECTIVE: The relationship between depression and estrogen withdrawal remains controversial. The authors examined the effects of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist-induced ovarian suppression on mood, sleep, sexual function, and nightt…

OBJECTIVE: Mood and reproductive function were prospectively evaluated in asymptomatic premenopausal women to determine whether the onset of depression was temporally linked to the perimenopause. METHOD: Twenty-nine asymptomatic, regularly…

Comparing 14 women with and 55 women without endometriosis, the authors found no significant differences in the prevalence of affective disorder. They discuss the discrepancy between their finding and Lewis et al.'s finding of an associatio…

A consecutive sample of 16 women with laparoscopy-diagnosed endometriosis were evaluated for mood disorders. Twelve women met DSM-III criteria for a mood disorder: seven for bipolar disorder, mixed, three for bipolar disorder, manic, and tw…

A 21-year-old unmarried female, with a history of periodic psychotic behavior, was admitted to the hospital after exhibiting overt psychotic symptoms. Several months of hospital observtion and a review of her earlier psychotic episodes sugg…