Adam Urato - Chemicals Have Consequences: Antidepressants and Pregnancy

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🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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On our podcast this week, we hear from Dr. Adam Urato.

Adam graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1997 and has been practicing medicine for over 25 years, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. He cares for pregnant women on a daily basis as an attending maternal-fetal medicine physician at MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, Massachusetts. He writes and lectures regularly on antidepressant use during pregnancy.

Adam has contributed to Mad in America’s continuing education efforts and his free course "Antidepressants and Pregnancy" can be found on Mad in America’s education section. It is an informative and comprehensive look into a little-discussed but very important area of women’s health.

For this interview, Adam joined me to discuss what we do and don’t know about the effects of antidepressants on babies and mothers and also the importance of counselling in order to aid families in making important decisions about pharmaceutical drug use.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice.
0:13.4	Hello, this is James, and welcome to the podcast. And this week we hear from Dr. Adam Urato.
0:20.0	Adam graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1997
0:23.7	and has been practicing medicine for over 25 years specialising in obstetrics and gynecology.
0:30.1	He cares for pregnant women on a daily basis as an attending maternal fetal medicine physician
0:35.7	at Metro West Medical Center in Framingham, Massachusetts.
0:40.2	He also writes and lectures regularly on antidepressant use during pregnancy.
0:45.5	Adam has contributed to Madden America's continuing education efforts, and his free course
0:50.6	antidepressants and pregnancy can be found on Madden America's education section.
0:55.6	And I highly recommend that you watch it as it's an informative and comprehensive look into
1:00.8	a little discussed but very important area of women's health. For this interview, Adam joined me to
1:06.9	discuss what we do and don't know about the effects of antidepressants on babies and mothers,
1:12.2	and also the importance of counselling in order to aid families in making important decisions
1:17.3	about pharmaceutical drug use. Dr. Yarato, Adam, welcome. Thank you so much for joining me today
1:25.1	for the Madden America podcast. I have to say that you're someone that I'm really excited that we can get to talk to.
1:32.6	We've had a lot of interest in hearing from someone with your kind of particular skills and abilities.
1:37.7	So thank you for joining us.
1:39.1	It's a real pleasure to be here and thanks for having me.
1:41.9	Great.
1:42.4	Thank you.
1:43.5	You're a specialist in obstetrics and
1:46.5	gynecology and you've been practicing medicine for over 20 years now. But in addition, I think it's
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