Suicidality clues reside in gray matter
Patients with psychotic disorders who attempt suicide have marked structural changes in their gray matter relative to those who do not show suicidal behavior, shows an analysis of the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network for Intermediate Phenotypes cohort. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - August 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Ingestion sensors track psychiatric medication adherence
A digital health feedback system involving the ingestion of a digital sensor could help improve medication adherence in patients with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, study findings show. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - July 31, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Drug misuse boost to cognition refuted in schizophrenia
Analysis of the CATIE study participants has cast doubt on the purported link between illicit drug use and improved cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - July 31, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Cognitive tests predict employability in bipolar disorder
Patients with bipolar disorder who are not employed despite being in euthymia have poorer neurocognition than those who are in a job, report researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - July 30, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Individual response determines psychosis impact
People who have persistent psychotic experiences but do not require medical care cope by normalizing their experiences, research suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - July 30, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Individual bipolar maintenance treatment achievable
The wide range of medications currently available for the treatment of bipolar disorder means that clinicians can tailor maintenance treatment to their patients’ individual needs, an observational study shows. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - July 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
IQ may forewarn of psychosis vulnerability
Men with psychosis tend to have lower than average IQ, along with evidence of learning difficulties in childhood, study findings show. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - July 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Polarity index helps focus bipolar treatment
Study findings confirm the benefit of identifying the polarity index of patients with bipolar disorder in order to optimize their treatment. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - July 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Psychiatric assessment needed in epilepsy
Research shows that psychiatric comorbidity is a major contributor to the excess mortality from external causes seen in patients with epilepsy. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - July 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Cognitive therapy for at-risk mental state stigma fears allayed
Cognitive therapy may help to prevent people with an at-risk mental state from regarding their experiences too negatively, a study shows. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - July 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Preventive medical care critical for bipolar patients
A large part of the increased mortality risk among patients with bipolar disorder may be due to delayed diagnosis and treatment of comorbidities, suggests research published in JAMA Psychiatry. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - July 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Psychotic symptoms warn of adolescent suicide attempt risk
Psychotic symptoms in adolescents signal a high risk for suicide attempts in adolescents, particularly in those with psychopathology, researchers report. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - July 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Hypomania screen valid across cultures
The performance of the Hypomania Checklist–32 revised version 2 is largely independent of patients’ cultures, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - July 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Childhood psychosis study reveals prevention opportunity
Researchers have published strong evidence from a large sample of adolescents that trauma leads to psychosis. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - July 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
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 - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - July 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
