Scale identifies bipolar disorder patients reluctant to give up ‘sick role’
Researchers have highlighted the importance of recognizing patients with bipolar disorder who may have difficulty adjusting out of the “sick role,” so that useful psychological treatment strategies can be provided. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - March 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
AKAP protein alterations implicated in bipolar disorder
Researchers have found increased cellular expression of the postsynaptic signaling protein AKAP5/79 in the anterior cingulate cortex of patients with bipolar disorder. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - March 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Attachment to parents unaffected in offspring of bipolar disorder patients
Children born to families where at least one parent has bipolar disorder do not show abnormalities in attachment compared with other children, say Canadian researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - March 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Non-social cognitive deficits outweigh social ones in bipolar disorder
Patients with bipolar disorder have relatively greater impairments in non-social cognition than social cognition, whereas the opposite is true for patients with schizophrenia, researchers report. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - March 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Foreign-born adoptees most at risk for psychiatric disorders
Foreign-born adoptees have the highest rates of psychiatric disorders among migrants, show the results of a large, Danish population-based cohort study. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - March 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Bipolar disorder patients avoid rewarding activities
People with bipolar I disorder tend to be aware of the potential for goal achievement to trigger mania and as a result dampen their emotions and avoid reward, preliminary research suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - March 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Misdiagnosed bipolar depression has subtle clinical features
Increased appetite, sleep, and weight gain, among other clinical features, can be used to help identify patients with bipolar disorder who have been misdiagnosed with major depressive disorder. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - March 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Brain functional connectivity differs between unipolar and bipolar depression
Patients with bipolar depression differ from their peers with unipolar depression in having stronger functional connectivity in the right posterior cingulate cortex, US study findings indicate. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Bipolar disorder associated with increased hypertension risk
Taiwanese individuals with bipolar disorder are at an increased risk for hypertension when compared with the general population, research shows. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Calcium channel risk allele linked to executive function in bipolar disorder
Researchers have found an allele in a voltage-gated calcium gene that is associated with an increased risk for poor executive function in patients with bipolar disorder. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Cognitive impairments in bipolar disorder 'stable'
Impaired cognitive function among bipolar disorder patients seems to be stable over time, suggesting it is an enduring feature of the condition, show the results of a longitudinal study. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Adolescent bipolar disorder ‘does not conform to checklist’
Young people with bipolar disorder who are in a depressive episode do not conform to the child behavior checklist–juvenile bipolar disorder phenotype profile, the results of a US study indicate. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Perinatal episodes prevalent in women with mood disorders
Perinatal mood episodes are highly prevalent in women with bipolar disorder and recurrent major depression, UK research shows. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 20, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Depression links PTSD to life quality in bipolar disorder
The association between post-traumatic stress disorder and mental health-related quality of life among individuals with bipolar disorder may be mediated by depressive symptoms, the results of a US study indicate. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Substance use common in young mental health patients
Young people using mental healthcare services have a high frequency of alcohol, nicotine, and cannabis use, Australian study results show. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
