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ReviewTrends in molecular medicine2018

Do Defective Immune System-Mediated Myelination Processes Increase Postpartum Psychosis Risk?

Paola Dazzan, Montserrat Fusté, William Davies

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Review in Trends in molecular medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Postpartum psychosis: A proposed treatment algorithm.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2023
    Review
  4. Article
  5. The role of the immune system in postpartum psychosis.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2021
    Article
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Paola DazzanDepartment of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London, London, UK; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Mental Health Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, London, UK.
Montserrat FustéDepartment of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London, London, UK.
William DaviesMedical Research Council Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics and Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, Schools of Medicine and Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. Electronic address: daviesw4@cardiff.ac.uk.
King's College London · GBCardiff University · GB

Funding

Department of HealthMedical Research Council MR/L010305/1MRF_ C0439
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Postpartum (or puerperal) psychosis (PP) is a rare, severe psychiatric disorder that affects women shortly after childbirth; risk is particularly high in individuals with a history of bipolar disorder or PP, but the underlying pathophysiology remains poorly understood. Emerging evidence suggests that immune system (dys)function plays an important role in disorder onset. On the basis of new findings from clinical and animal model studies, we hypothesise that the abundance and/or activity of regulatory T cells, and the efficacy of consequent (re)myelination processes in the brain mediated by CCN proteins, is perturbed in PP; this pathway may be modulated by risk and protective/treatment factors for the disorder, and identifying abnormalities within it could signpost novel predictive biomarkers and therapeutic targets.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiomarkersDisease SusceptibilityHumansImmune SystemMyelin SheathNephroblastoma Overexpressed ProteinOligodendrogliaPhenotypePsychotic DisordersPuerperal DisordersSymptom AssessmentT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryBiomarkersNephroblastoma Overexpressed Proteinbipolar disorderCCN3mouse modelmultiple sclerosisoligodendrocyteregulatory T cell

Identifiers

PMID30348609
PMCPMC6224363
OpenAlexW2895951910

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