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Postpartum Psychosis: could genetic vulnerability to insomnia or short sleep duration be protective?
Translational psychiatry - 5 Feb 2026
Petrosellini Chiara, Eriksson Sofia H, Meyer Nicholas, Protti Olivia, Bass Nicholas, Kuchenbaecker Karoline, Siassakos Dimitrios, McQuillin Andrew
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Postpartum Psychosis (PP) is a severe and understudied perinatal mental illness which disproportionately affects women with bipolar disorder (BD). A relationship between sleep disturbance and PP is often assumed, but is poorly understood. From a cohort of 2099 individuals with BD, 343 parous women were identified and screened for perinatal psychiatric complications. We compared 117 women who developed PP with 226...
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