Affective temperaments steer mood disorder disease course
Temperamental state may predict the diagnosis, symptom presentation, and psychopathologic conditions of mood disorder patients, study findings show. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - July 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Phenotypic overlap across schizophrenia spectrum
The Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes consortium has found “scant” evidence that phenotypes cluster around the traditional schizophrenia-spectrum diagnoses. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - July 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Online resource supports bipolar caregivers
A website providing supportive information has proved popular with caregivers of patients with bipolar disorder, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - July 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Clinical antecedents predict first-episode bipolar I type
Researchers have identified psychopathologic phenomena and interventions that may predict initial major psychotic episode type in patients who later present with bipolar I disorder. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - July 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
CSF marker hints at bipolar pathogenesis
Levels of the cerebrospinal fluid marker secretogranin II are reduced in patients with bipolar I disorder, show study findings. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - July 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Social cognition link to positive psychotic symptoms
Impaired social cognition in young people is a marker of psychotic, rather than affective, conditions and is specific to positive symptoms, research suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - July 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Suicidality in pediatric bipolar disorder ‘needs urgent attention’
Suicidality in children with bipolar disorder is common but underinvestigated, suggest meta-analysis findings. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - July 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Manic episodes have lasting consequences
Having a history of manic episodes is associated with an increased risk for death later in life, report researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - July 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Bipolar course sequence helps guide treatment decisions
Clinicians should look at both initial illness types and course-sequence types when treating patients with bipolar disorder, study findings indicate. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - July 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Autistic comorbidities take toll in pediatric bipolar disorder
Autistic spectrum disorders may be present in nearly a third of children with bipolar I disorder, further impairing their social functioning, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - July 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Psychologic model highlights bipolar subtypes
Studying the Behavioral Activation System in patients with bipolar disorder reveals important differences between the bipolar I and II disorder subtypes, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - July 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Pediatric mania rarely persists
Most children with symptoms of mania improve rapidly and are unlikely to be diagnosed with a bipolar spectrum disorder, research shows. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - July 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Group psychoeducation wards off bipolar hospitalization
Researchers have found evidence to support the use of group psychoeducation as an adjunct to maintenance pharmacotherapy in the treatment of patients with bipolar disorder. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - July 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Activation syndrome suggests bipolarity in depressed patients
Activation syndrome is much more common in patients with bipolar depression than in those with major depressive disorder, report researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - July 2, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Memory failings impede bipolar diagnosis
The ability of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire to identify bipolar disorder is compromised by patients being able to recall only the most recent episodes of mania, research shows. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - June 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
