DOES PUERPERAL ILLNESS DISTINGUISH A SUBGROUP OF BIPOLAR PATIENTS

Authors
HUNT N SILVERSTONE T
Citation
N. Hunt et T. Silverstone, DOES PUERPERAL ILLNESS DISTINGUISH A SUBGROUP OF BIPOLAR PATIENTS, Journal of affective disorders, 34(2), 1995, pp. 101-107
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychiatry,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Journal of affective disorders → ACNP
ISSN journal
01650327
Volume
34
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
101 - 107
Database
ISI
SICI code
0165-0327(1995)34:2<101:DPIDAS>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
Puerperal psychosis was found to be the 1st illness for 13 (36%) of a series of 36 mothers with bipolar affective disorder. The risk of recu rrence with childbirth in those with established bipolar disorder was found to be 25-40%. Those women who survived childbirth without illnes s but then became ill ata later time reported a worse illness course. Recent fatherhood was not a precipitant of 1st affective illness for a ny of the 28 bipolar men.