Pregnancy is a complex and vulnerable period that presents a number of challenges to
women, including the development of postpartum psychiatric disorders (PPDs). These …

An intimate relationship exists between sleep and affective states. Disturbances in sleep are
common across a spectrum of psychopathologies, and are recognised as precipitating or …

Objectives: To provide advice and guidance regarding the management of mood disorders,
derived from scientific evidence and supplemented by expert clinical consensus to formulate …

Background By affecting the internal timing mechanisms of the brain, light regulates human
physiology and behavior, perhaps most notably the sleep–wake cycle. Humans spend over …

Importance Indoor nighttime light exposure influences sleep and circadian rhythms and is
known to affect mood-associated brain circuits in animals. However, little is known about the …

Sleep disturbance is increasingly recognized as an important, but understudied, mechanism
in the complex and multi-factorial causation of the symptoms and functional disability …

Sleep disturbances and circadian rhythm dysfunction have been widely demonstrated in
patients with bipolar disorder (BD). Irregularity of the sleep–wake rhythm, eveningness …

Objectives Cognitive dysfunction affects a significant proportion of people with bipolar
disorder (BD), but the cause, trajectory and correlates of such dysfunction remains unclear …

Over the past decade, researchers have shifted focus from the manic and depressive
episodes to the interepisode period in the study of sleep–wake disturbance in bipolar …

Introduction Bipolar disorder (BD) is a severe mental disorder affecting 1–4% of the
population worldwide. It is characterized by periods of (hypo) manic and depressive …