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As part of a follow-up and family study of post-partum psychoses, this episode of illness being the first leading to psychiatric hospitalisation, patients with puerperal episodes (PE) and nonpuerperal episodes (NPE) of illness in the long-term course (n=79) were compared to patients with PE only (n=40). Few differences were found. Relatives of patients with PE only had a lower morbidity risk for functional psychoses than relatives of patients with PE and NPE. A favourable course of illness in the presence of a low genetic predisposition may be expected, according to the diathesis-stress model of functional psychoses.
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Schöpf, J., Rust, B. Follow-up and family study of postpartum psychoses. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Nuerosci 244, 138–140 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02191888
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