Mania Triggered by Sleep Loss: Implications for Postpartum Psychosis

Background and Aims To examine whether a history of mood episodes triggered by sleep loss is associated with (1) postpartum psychosis (PP) and (2) more broadly-defined postpartum mood episodes that included postnatal depression (PND), in women with bipolar disorder (BD). Methods Participants were 622 parous women with a diagnosis of bipolar-I disorder recruited in the UK to the Bipolar Disorder Research Network. Diagnosis and perinatal episodes were assessed via interview and case note data. Women were also asked during the interview whether episodes of mania and/or depression were triggered by sleep loss. We compared the rates of PP and PND within women who did and did not endorse sleep loss as a trigger of mood episodes. Results Women who reported that their episodes of mania were usually triggered by sleep loss were twice as likely to have experienced an episode of PP (OR = 2.00, 95% CI = 1.20–3.36) than women who did not report this. This effect remained significant when controlling for clinical and demographic factors. We found no significant associations between depression triggered by sleep loss and PP. Analyses in which we defined postpartum episodes at a broader level to include both PP and PND were not significant. Conclusions In pregnant women with BD, a history of mania following sleep loss could be a potential marker of vulnerability to severe postpartum episodes. Further study in prospective samples is required in order to confirm these findings, which may have important implications for understanding the aetiology of PP and of mood disorders more generally.

O quotidiano na clausura feminina eborense e a presença de população escrava: a fronteira entre o servir das portas adentro e das portas afora no período moderno

Resumo: Apesar da existência de anteriores estudos, tanto em termos nacionais como regionais, e que demonstram a forte presença de escravos em Évora nos séculos XV e XVI, localizar a população escrava na documentação de instituições religiosas femininas da cidade e entender a sua condição de vida nessas comunidades não se revela fácil. Muitas das referências à sua existência são indiretas, ao fazerem parte de um dote ou doação (constando como bens a que se atribui um determinado valor), que podia ser testamentária, de partilhas e sentenças. São também de difícil perceção as tarefas desempenhadas no quotidiano de espaços claustrais, especialmente os femininos, sujeitos às exigências pós-tridentinas. Só com a apresentação de alguns casos, a juntar aos já conhecidos, poderemos sugerir algumas considerações sobre esta matéria. Abstract: Despite the existence of previous studies, both national and regional, studies that demonstrate a strong presence of slaves in Évora in the 15th and 16th centuries, locating them in documents from the city’s female religious communities and understanding their living conditions in those communities is not an easy task. Many of the references to their existence are indirect and related to a dowry or donation (being mentioned as assets with an assigned value), which could be associated with a will, a partition or a sentence. It is also difficult to ascertain the tasks they performed in the everyday life of cloistered communities, particularly the female ones, subject to the post-Tridentine requirements. Only by presenting a series of cases, other than the ones that are already known, will we be able to suggest considerations on this matter.

Between service and loyalty: chancery and chancellors of Portugal in the 14th century

Estudo dos perfis e carreiras dos chancelares que serviram os reis portugueses ao longo do século XIV. Procura-se, com este estudo, reflectir sobre a evolução do papel dos eclesiásticos na construção da realeza e estabelecer tendências para a evolução dos perfis dos protagonistas do serviço régio.

Tracing the Basque presence in eastern Canada during the 16th and 17th centuries, through ceramic remains: the example of the glazed pottery produced in Bilbao

Poster presentado en Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Conference, in St John's, Newfoundland,(Canadá)(June 2010)

The Economic anI Racial Implications of the Globalization of Knowledge by Catholic Missionaries in Portuguese India, 16th-18th Centuries

The European Missionaries benefitted from the native Asian sources and knowledge providers much more than it is honestly acknowledged.

Gold and silver mining in the 16th and 17th centuries, land titles and agricultural productivity

Although agricultural productivity is critical for economic development very little is known about the causes of the large dispersion in agricultural productivity across the world. Microeconomic studies increasingly stress the lack of land rights in many poor countries as an important source of low productivity. This paper examines the role played by land titles in explaining differences in agricultural productivity for 93 countries. Using the per capita accumulated value of gold and silver production in the 16th and 17th centuries as instruments for land rights it is shown that enforcement of land titles is a significant source of agricultural productivity inequality across the world.

The feudal history of the county of Derby : (chiefly during the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries) /

No more published.

Introduction to the literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries./

Vols. 2-4 have half-title: Collection of ancient and modern British authors. v. 166-167 bis.