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(sz) Obstetricians and scientists working in IVF clinics should pay attention to a recent paper on some of the problems with mental health emerging from birth onwards. In a recent edition of the Wall Street Journal, a reporter, Elizabeth Bernstein, wrote about infants with anomalies in mental health. She commented that studying these conditions in infants to age 3 was common until recently, as therapists moved from ‘the couch to the crib’. A diagnostic manual of mental disorders has been devised to include two new subsets of depression, five new subsets of anxiety disorders and six new categories of feeding behaviour disorders. Further stimuli to new outlooks also include starting required treatments as soon as possible since they can be diagnosed in some children very early in life, even at the age of 1 year. These advances are linked to an improved understanding of matters such as child-like love, meeting the person they adore, and repairing damage in emotional and other problems emerging in very youthful years. more…

From:»RBM online«

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