Identifying and treating menopausal depression is needed, Professor Jayashri Kulkarni argues in her Nature Outlook essay |
Professor Kulkarni writes, "Improving outcomes for people with menopause-related depression requires some significant changes.
"Most importantly, psychiatrists and other mental-health practitioners who treat women in their 40s and 50s need to enquire about menopause at the outset of treatment, and be willing to prescribe hormone therapies.
"In addition, clinicians and health-care students alike need to be better educated about this phase of women’s lives. A big part of clinicians’ reluctance to prescribe HRT for menopausal depression is the lack of knowledge about menopause — particularly how it affects the brain."
Read the essay: www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02213-w