Manic symptoms similar for children and adolescents
The nature of mania symptoms appears to be similar in young people with bipolar disorder, irrespective of whether they occur in childhood or adolescence, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Manic episodes linked to memory recall deficit in bipolar disorder
Patients with bipolar disorder have impaired recall of episodic autobiographical memories when recounting events that occurred during mania, report Canadian researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Cortisol and white matter integrity relationship disrupted in bipolar disorder
Researchers have found evidence in support of hypercortisol-induced glial dysfunction affecting periventricular white matter integrity in patients with bipolar disorder. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Bipolar disorder ‘frequent’ in depressive borderline personality disorder
Study results indicate that bipolar disorder may occur in up to half of individuals with co-existing borderline personality disorder and depression. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Metabolic syndrome risk factors prevalent in bipolar disorder
People who have bipolar disorder are at a high risk for developing the metabolic syndrome and related cardiovascular disorders, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 8, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Anxiety may contribute to cognitive dysfunction in bipolar disorder
Compromised cognitive and adaptive functioning in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder may be partly explained by related comorbid anxiety, suggest researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Emotion regulation therapy benefits bipolar patients
Dialectical behavior therapy shows promise for the treatment of bipolar disorder, findings from a pilot study show. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Location of altered brain metabolite levels found in bipolar I patients
Bipolar I disorder patients have increased phospholipid levels in the thalami and increased N-acetyl-aspartate levels in the left hippocampus compared with healthy individuals, a team of investigators has discovered. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Mood disorder clinics improve bipolar disorder outcomes
Early treatment of patients with bipolar disorder in a specialized mood disorder clinic substantially reduces the risk for readmission to a psychiatric hospital, clinical trial findings show. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - February 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Hyperconnectivity in brain emotion regions even in remitted bipolar I disorder
Bipolar I disorder patients who are in remission display increased coupling between brain regions involved in regulating emotions, even in the absence of a psychological task, shows a US study. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - January 31, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Childhood adversity raises comorbidity risk in bipolar disorder
Childhood adversity, including verbal, physical, or sexual abuse, is associated with the later development of multiple medical comorbidities in patients with bipolar disorder, researchers report. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - January 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Risk factors pave way for tailored substance use prevention in bipolar disorder
Researchers have identified risk factors that may help clinicians identify bipolar disorder patients who are at increased risk for substance use disorders. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - January 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Undetected comorbidities linked to increased mortality in schizophrenia
Patients with schizophrenia have elevated mortality, the leading causes of which appear to be ischemic heart disease and cancer, a Swedish national cohort study shows. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - January 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Semantic priming abnormalities differ between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
Patients with bipolar disorder have decreased semantic priming, the results of a preliminary study indicate. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - January 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Impulsiveness linked to severe clinical features in bipolar disorder
Researchers have confirmed that trait-impulsiveness is associated with bipolar disorder and provide additional evidence of it being linked to a more severe clinical expression of the disease. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - January 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
