Publications by authors named "Jessica Mei Kay Yang"
Postpartum psychosis: a public involvement perspective across three continents.
Arch Womens Ment Health
December 2023
Article Synopsis
- Postpartum psychosis is a serious mental health issue that many people don't know much about, and it's not included in official health guides.
- People from different countries, like India, Malawi, and the UK, talked about this problem to share their experiences and improve mental health services.
- The discussions revealed that while postpartum psychosis looks similar everywhere, there are differences in how people get help and the words used to describe it, which can help make care and research better.
Article Synopsis
- * Researchers analyzed data from 203 women with post-partum psychosis and 1,225 women with bipolar disorder, employing genetic risk scoring techniques to determine polygenic influences on these conditions.
- * The participants were part of a broader research effort involving over 2,800 women from the general population to establish genetic links, using approaches like logistic regression to analyze the data accurately.
Article Synopsis
- Bipolar disorder has a genetic basis and complex causes; a large study compared nearly 42,000 bipolar patients with over 371,000 healthy controls, revealing 64 genomic regions linked to the disorder.
- The findings showed that risk-related genes are heavily associated with brain functions, particularly in areas like the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus, and they include targets for various medications.
- The research also distinguished between bipolar disorder types I and II, revealing a close genetic relationship and highlighting 15 specific genes that could lead to new treatment options and further investigations.