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ReviewWorld journal of psychiatry2017

Understanding the pathophysiology of postpartum psychosis: Challenges and new approaches.

William Davies

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Review in World journal of psychiatry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Ethical and Legal Aspects of Women's Mental Health.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2024
    Article
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Neurobiology of peripartum mental illness.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2021
    Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Review
  10. Postpartum Psychosis in a Young VA Patient: Diagnosis, Implications, and Treatment Recommendations.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2018
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

William DaviesWilliam Davies, Medical Research Council Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics and Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 4HQ, United Kingdom.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/L010305/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Postpartum psychosis is a severe psychiatric condition which affects 1-2 of every 1000 mothers shortly after childbirth. Whilst there is convincing evidence that the condition is precipitated by a complex combination of biological and environmental factors, as yet the pathophysiological mechanisms remain extremely poorly defined. Here, I critically review approaches that have been, or are being, employed to identify and characterise such mechanisms; I also review a recent animal model approach, and describe a novel biological risk model that it suggests. Clarification of biological risk mechanisms underlying disorder risk should permit the identification of relevant predictive biomarkers which will ensure that "at risk" subjects receive prompt clinical intervention if required.

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Animal modelCCN3Immune systemMouseNephroblastoma-overexpressedRisk factorSteroid sulfatase

Identifiers

PMID28713685
PMCPMC5491479

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