Depression has a profound impact on parameters of interpersonal behaviour (Lewinsohn et
al. 1970; Libert & Lewinsohn, 1973; Teasdale et al. 1980). Studies of healthy mother–infant�…

Methods This article is based on a review of the recent research concerned with the impact
of postnatal depression on child development, and the epidemiology, prediction, detection�…

Is the public getting a good deal when the government contracts out the delivery of goods
and services? Phillip Cooper attempts to get at the heart of this question by exploring what�…

Concerns about body shape are common among young women in Western cultures, and, in
an extreme form, they constitute a central feature of the eating disorders anorexia nervosa�…

The Xisf gene maps to the X inactivation center region in both mouse and human, and
previous analysis of the 3'end of the gene has demonstrated inactive X-specific expression�…

The EDE is a semistructured interview which has been developed as a measure of the
specific psychopathology of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. To establish its�…

BackgroundIt is unclear whether the causative factors of non-psychotic postnatal depression
are the same as those of depression at other times. MethodThe course and recurrence of�…

BackgroundPsychological interventions for postnatal depression can be beneficial in the
short term but their longer-term impact is unknown. AimsTo evaluate the long-term effect on�…

BackgroundPost-partum depression in the developing world has received tittle research
attention, and its association with disturbances in the mother–infant relationship is unknown�…

There is good evidence that parental psychiatric disorder has a deleterious eVect on child
development. Rutter has outlined a number of possible reasons for this. 1 First, there may be�…