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Puerperal psychosis: identifying and caring for women at risk
Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 11/03/09

Jones I et al. – Puerperal (postpartum) psychosis – the acute onset of a manic or psychotic episode shortly after childbirth – most commonly occurs in women with a bipolar disorder diathesis who have a vulnerability to a specific childbirth–related trigger. Women with bipolar disorder are at particularly high risk of puerperal psychosis, with a severe affective episode following between 25 and 50% of deliveries.

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AIDS Care, 10/29/09 Relevance Score: 68%

Epigenetic Mediation of Environmental Influences in Major Psychotic Disorders
Schizophrenia Bulletin, 10/05/09 Relevance Score: 68%

Financial incentives to improve adherence to anti-psychotic maintenance medication in non-adherent patients - a cluster randomised controlled trial (FIAT)
BMC Psychiatry, 10/02/09 Relevance Score: 68%

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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 11/17/09 Relevance Score: 67%

The Catatonia Conundrum: Evidence of Psychomotor Phenomena as a Symptom Dimension in Psychotic Disorders
Schizophrenia Bulletin, 10/05/09 Relevance Score: 67%