Current pharmacotherapy approaches and novel GABAergic antidepressant development in postpartum depression

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Abstract

Postpartum depression has deleterious effects on childbearing persons globally. Existing treatments have been largely extrapolated from those for other forms of depression and have included pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, and neuromodulation. Hormonal treatments with oestrogen and progestogens, thought to be a rational approach to treatment in response to an emerging literature on the pathophysiology of postpartum depression, have only limited evidence for efficacy to date. Novel antidepressant development with allopregnanolone analogues, in contrast, has proven a promising avenue for the development of rationally designed and efficacious treatments. This state-of-the-art review presents the evidence for the current standard-of-care pharmacotherapy, hormonal treatment, and emerging allopregnanolone analogues for the treatment of postpartum depression along with a discussion of the current understanding of its neuroactive steroid-driven pathophysiology.

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Carlini, S. V., Osborne, L. M., & Deligiannidis, K. M. (2023). Current pharmacotherapy approaches and novel GABAergic antidepressant development in postpartum depression. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience. Taylor and Francis Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1080/19585969.2023.2262464

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