Bipolar affective disorder in the postnatal period: investigating the role of sleep

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was funded by a NARSAD Independent Investigator Award (2005-2007) to AEB. The authors thank all of the women who participated in this study and for taking the time and effort to complete the study requirements. The authors acknowledge the assistance of Hilda Badruddin and Ria Lestari, Faculty of Medicine, Universities Indonesia, in recruiting participants. The paper is dedicated to Participant 039 who, along with her family, was tragically killed in the 'Black Saturday' bushfires that swept through the state of Victoria, Australia, in the summer of 2009. These fires were Australia's worst ever natural disaster and resulted in 173 people being killed.