Pros And Cons Of Antidepressant Use On Pregnancy
According to the textbook, a teratogen is an agent that causes abnormal prenatal development. (Kail, 2015) Teratogens such as alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, smoking, etc. These teratogens can cause major damages to the fetus and and possibly cause the child to be born with effects such as malformations, cognitive disabilities, or damage to the central nervous system. Specifically, antidepressants are also classified as a teratogen. There has been a lot of controversial research on the exact effects of antidepressants on the woman’s pregnancy. Pregnant women who suffer with major depression and took tricyclic antidepressant drugs and agents that selectively inhibited the reuptake of serotonin, which is critical in the development of the fetus.
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The first one was the University of North Texas school site and the article was titled “The Pros and Cons of Antidepressant Use on Pregnancy”. I would give this site a quality rating of a 3 because it provided good information for me to be able to research other aspects of my topic. It was just a base. I would have liked it to be more like a research study to give me more sources but the website itself was published by the university, so I feel like it’s still reliable. The second site was a research study from the New England Journal of Medicine, titled “Neurodevelopment of Children Exposed in Utero to Antidepressant Drugs”. I would give this site a quality rating of a 4, because it gave me really good information about my topic from different research studies that have been done before and compressed it together. I believe this source is reliable because it is from a reviewed journal. The third website was a research from the Annals of Clinical Psychology, titled “Effects of Antidepressants During Pregnancy and Lactation”. I would give this website a quality rating of a 4 as well because i received a lot of data from the charts it provided, but at the same time the information is from 1999. The last was a research study on the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health website, titled Antidepressant Use in Pregnancy: “A Critical Review Focused on Risks and Controversies”. I would give this website a quality rating of a 4 because it goes into the controversy that my topic faces for me to better understand why the use of antidepressants for pregnant women cannot be