APA 2014: Predicting Length of Stay in Bipolar Disorder
The Particulars: Length of stay (LOS) has become an important quality measure of care. Few studies have assessed risk factors that increase LOS among inpatients with bipolar disorder. Data Breakdown:...
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Artificial Intelligence That Can Shoot Down Fighter Planes Helps Treat...
The artificial intelligence that can blow human pilots out of the sky in air-to-air combat accurately predicted treatment outcomes for bipolar disorder, according to a new medical study by the...
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Risk for Bipolar Disorder Associated with Faster Aging
New King’s College London research suggests that people with a family history of bipolar disorder may ‘age’ more rapidly than those without a history of the disease. The study, published in...
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Lower Birth Weight May Up Risk for Psychiatric Disorders
ADHD, autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression tied to birth weight in sibling pairs
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Nonsurgical Brain Stimulation Beneficial in Major Depressive Episodes
Ten of 18 reviewed treatment strategies linked to higher response versus sham therapy
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Childhood Adversity Linked to Borderline Personality Disorder
Findings significant across adversity subtypes with largest effects seen for emotional abuse and neglect
View ArticleBlue-blocking glasses as additive treatment for mania: Effects on...
Improvement of sleep is a central treatment goal for patients in a manic state. Blue-blocking (BB) glasses as adjunctive treatment hasten overall recovery from mania. This method is an evolvement from...
View ArticleDisturbance of oxidative stress parameters in treatment-resistant bipolar...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective option for treatment-resistant bipolar disorder (trBD). However, the mechanisms of its effect are obscure. Oxidative stress (OxS) is thought to be...
View ArticleMood versus energy/activity symptoms in bipolar disorder: which cluster of...
Although bipolar disorder (BD) is traditionally included among mood disorders, some authors believe that changes in energy and motor activity, rather than mood changes, represent the true cardinal...
View ArticleDextromethorphan Protect the Valproic Acid Induced Downregulation of...
Valproic acid (VPA) is an anticonvulsant and commonly long term used as a mood stabilizer for patients with mood disorders. However its chronic effects on the hematological changes were noticed and...
View ArticleA brief motivational intervention for enhancing medication adherence for...
Youth with bipolar disorder (BP) exhibit poor medication adherence, contributing to affective recurrence. Brief Motivational Interventions (BMIs) improve adherence among adolescents with chronic...
View ArticleACC Glu/GABA ratio is decreased in euthymic bipolar disorder I patients:...
Bipolar disorder (BD) is characterized by unstable mood states ranging from mania to depression. Although there is some evidence that mood instability may result from an imbalance between excitatory...
View ArticleSymptom profile of postpartum and non-postpartum manic episodes in bipolar I...
The relationship of postpartum mania to episodes of mania occurring outside the perinatal period among women with bipolar disorder remains controversial. Previous studies have used between-subjects...
View ArticlePredicting Personalized Risk of Mood Recurrences in Youths and Young Adults...
With each recurrence the prognosis of bipolar disorder (BD) worsens, indicating the need to identify the factors associated with increased recurrence risk. The course of BD is heterogenous and although...
View ArticleExpression of and oestrogen receptor encoding gene and personality traits –...
The main objective of the study is to examine the hypothesis claiming a correlation between personality traits measured with the use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2)...
View ArticleDefining cognitive and functional profiles in schizophrenia and affective...
Neurocognitive dysfunction is a common symptom of various major psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, major depressive disorder (MDD), and bipolar I disorder (BD). In this study, we...
View ArticleNeuroserpin in Bipolar Disorder.
Neuroserpin is a serine protease inhibitor predominantly expressed in the nervous system functioning mainly in neuronal migration and axonal growth. Neuroprotective effects of neuroserpin was shown in...
View ArticleThe Renin Angiotensin System and Bipolar Disorder: A Systematic Review.
Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a chronic a multifactorial psychiatric illness that affects mood, cognition, and functioning. BD is associated with several psychiatric conditions as well clinical...
View ArticleLower serum nicotinamide N-methyltransferase levels in patients with bipolar...
Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric diseases. Bipolar disorder (BD) is associated with metabolic abnormalities and NNMT regulates energy...
View ArticleClinical validation of the BDS scale with bipolar disorder outpatients.
The BDS (Bipolar Disorder Symptom Scale) is a brief self-report instrument designed for repeated measurement of bipolar disorder (BD) symptoms over time. Previous research indicates that the BDS...
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