Multiple aspects to severe bipolar mixed states
Researchers have identified four subgroups of severe bipolar mixed states, characterized by distinct symptomatologic presentations. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - October 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Carbonyl stress suggests strategy for treatment-resistant schizophrenia
Patients with schizophrenia who have enhanced carbonyl stress have clinical features associated with treatment resistance, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - October 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Exercise interventions may be needed in bipolar patients
An accelerometry study shows that patients with bipolar disorder tend to be mostly sedentary. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Short insight scale validated for schizophrenia in clinical practice
Researchers have validated a short version of the Scale to Assess Unawareness in Mental Disorder, with the aim of encouraging assessment of insight in patients with schizophrenia in clinical practice. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
T. gondii antibodies implicated in mania
Infection with Toxoplasma gondii may confer an increased risk for mania, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Drug misuse predicts protracted hospital stay for schizophrenia patients
Patients hospitalized with schizophrenia have more severe symptoms and spend longer in hospital if they have a concurrent substance use disorder, report researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Stroke warning for bipolar patients
Patients with bipolar disorder are at an increased risk for having a stroke and for dying soon after their stroke, a study shows. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Early intermodality dysfunction predicts schizophrenia risk
Researchers have found abnormalities in the way infants of parents with schizophrenia perceive the way they move and how this relates to vision, touch, hearing, and orientation. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Inflammation tracks mania course
Markers of inflammation are elevated in patients who are hospitalized for acute mania, a study shows. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Prefrontal glutamate abnormalities confined to established psychosis
Abnormalities in glutamate and glutamine levels in the prefrontal cortex are only present in patients with chronic schizophrenia, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Impulsivity in bipolar disorder unrelated to substance abuse
Trait impulsivity is elevated and neurocognitive functioning is impaired in patients with bipolar disorder irrespective of whether they have a substance abuse history, research shows. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 20, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Adolescents with psychosis face long treatment delays
Adolescents have a duration of untreated psychosis that is approximately twice that seen in adults, UK study findings show. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 20, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Bipolar suicide characteristics found
Italian researchers have identified clinical and psychologic characteristics that could help predict the risk for suicide in patients with bipolar disorder. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Visual clue to schizophrenia pathology
Researchers say that retinal imaging could be a useful tool for studying some of the pathologic processes associated with schizophrenia. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Guidance for medication in bipolar depression published
Solid evidence to guide the use of antidepressants in patients with bipolar disorder is “remarkably limited,” says the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Task Force. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
