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Open Access 01-02-2017 | Original Article
Some unusual forms of early onset postpartum psychosis
Published in: Archives of Women's Mental Health | Issue 1/2017
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In addition to bipolar cycloid episodes, infective delirium and eclamptic psychosis, each of which has characteristic clinical features and course, brief episodes of delirium and stupor are also seen in the immediate aftermath of parturition. Several mothers have had similar episodes developing later in the first 10 days, and some have cyclical disorders with an unusual time base. Bipolar/cycloid disorders can start on day 1 or even earlier.