- Female Infertility
- Pregnancy
- Mental HealthDr. Downey then went on to carry out research in Turner Syndrome, a chromosomal condition affecting girls which causes infertility, as well as research in mental health effects of infertility in women. She wrote a series of highly respected papers and chapters on the reproductive cycle and psychiatric conditions in women. These works discussed not only infertility, but adolescent sexuality, premenstrual affective symptoms, the treatment of psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and post-partum, and cancers of the reproductive tract in women.
- PsychiatryJennifer Downey, MD, practices general adult psychiatry, psychodynamic psychiatry, and psychoanalysis in her office on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.