Treating Depressed Moms Brightens Children's Lives

Treating mothers with depression can help their children as well, found researchers from the federally funded STAR*D study of therapies for depression.

When depressed mothers achieve remission of their depression after three months on medication, the diagnoses and symptoms in their children of anxiety, disruptive behaviors, and depressive disorders also went down significantly, reported Myrna M. Weissman, Ph.D., of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and colleagues.(MedPageToday)

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