Antidepressants

Recent findings from 3 Massachusetts health care systems have found there is no evidence of the increased risk in the diagnoses of autism or ADHD with prenatal consumption of antidepressants.  However, in previous cases described in a report in Transitional Psychiatry it is probable the correlation between the diagnosis of autism or ADHD is due to the mother’s severity of depression.  Although there was an increase in both autism and ADHD for those children whom their mothers’ were taking antidepressants prior to pregnancy, the likelihood of exposure during pregnancy does not increase the r