{"id":2884,"date":"2014-08-27T11:07:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T16:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2014-08-27T11:07:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T16:07:45","slug":"antidepressants-during-pregnancy-may-be-linked-to-adhd-in-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/antidepressants-during-pregnancy-may-be-linked-to-adhd-in-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Antidepressants during pregnancy may be linked to ADHD in kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new study finds that exposure to antidepressants in the womb may be linked to an increased risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, the researchers caution that the risks of depressed mothers-to-be stopping their medication may be greater for the unborn child than the increased risk of developing ADHD associated with continuing medication. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The same study suggests antidepressant exposure in the womb does not increase the risk of developing autism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/mp\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/mp201490a.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/press.nature.com\/pdf\/press_files\/academic_journals\/26-08-2014\/mp201490a.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Molec<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ular Psychiatry<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 26, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/chgr.org\/index-faculty_perlis.html\" target=\"_blank\">Roy H. Perlis<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, Center for Human Genetic Research, USA<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study finds that exposure to antidepressants in the womb may be linked to an increased risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, the researchers caution that the risks of depressed mothers-to-be stopping their medication may be greater for the unborn child than the increased risk of developing ADHD associated with continuing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2153,2154,2152,51,53,1000,1379,476,1290],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-adhd","tag-autism","tag-depression","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-mental-health","tag-pregnancy","tag-public-health","tag-reproduction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Kw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}