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Postpartum Psychosis: Madness, Mania, and Melancholia in Motherhood.
OBJECTIVE Psychosis or mania after childbirth is a psychiatric emergency with risk for suicide and infanticide. METHOD The authors reviewed the epidemiologic and genetic research and physiological postpartum triggers (endocrine, immunological, circadian) of psychosis. They also summarized all systematic reviews and synthesized the sparse clinical studies to provide diagnostic recommendations,...
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IVt melancholia is a disease unique in the fact that every human heing wh0 }las reached that stage of his existence which can called the battle of life can enter into and appreciate to a ?reater or less degree the subjective sensations of the sufferer 0rn this complaint, by reason of having, however temporarily, Passed through periods of mental depression himself. Lucky lrideed is the man who c...
متن کاملResurrecting melancholia.
OBJECTIVE To define melancholia as a distinct mood disorder, identified by unremitting depressed mood, vegetative dysfunction, and psychomotor disturbances, verifiable by neuroendocrine tests, and treatable by electroconvulsive therapy and tricyclic antidepressants. METHOD A review of the literature of two centuries finds descriptions of severe mood disorders, either depression or mania or ci...
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BACKGROUND Melancholia is a kind of depression with the most common symptoms of evident mental disorder, slimness, lack of enjoyment, feeling guilty and having no appetite. In modern medicine, the word "melancholia" only refers to mental and affective symptoms of depression. However, historically, it could have physical symptoms as well as mental symptoms and the atrabilious situations were cat...
متن کاملMelancholia: past and present.
OBJECTIVE To investigate commonalities in the clinical presentation of melancholia over time. METHOD I conducted a comparative study to 2 epidemiologically complete databases from 1875-1924 and 1995-2005. RESULTS Patients in the historical period (1875-1924, compared with 1995-2005) with a diagnosis of melancholia show a classic profile of endogenous onset, with remission after 6 months, ne...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/s0007125000200676