What's the rate of bipolar spectrum disorder in children who have one parent with bipolar disorder? What methods are used to test for cognitive deficits in patients with bipolar disorder? These and more in this week's quiz.
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September 15, 2010
Bipolar Disorder Quiz
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September 8, 2010
Bipolar Disorder Does Not Increase Risk Of Violent Crime
A new study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet suggests that bipolar disorder - or manic-depressive disorder - does not increase the risk of committing violent crime. Instead, the over-representation of individuals with bipolar disorder in violent crime statistics is almost entirely attributable to concurrent substance abuse...
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August 8, 2010
Ketamine May Relieve Depression Quickly For Those With Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Disorder
A single intravenous dose of the anesthetic agent ketamine appears to reduce symptoms of depression within 40 minutes among those with bipolar disorder who have not responded to other treatments, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
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August 5, 2010
Bipolar Disorder Hospitalization Represents 60% Of Total Therapy Costs For The Disorder, UK
New research presented today shows that hospital stays for people with Bipolar Disorder cost taxpayers £207 million a year[i]. According to the research, sponsored by AstraZeneca, the NHS spends just 7% (£25 million) of the total costs for Bipolar Disorder on medicines versus 60% on hospital admissionsi...
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January 8, 2010
Whither Melancholia?
After formulating and signing "Melancholia: A Declaration of Independence," an international cadre of psychiatrists recently launched a campaign to have the upcoming DSM-V recognize melancholia as a distinct syndrome rather than as a specifier for the mood disorders of major depression and bipolar disorder.
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September 22, 2009
Bipolar Disorder Amongst Children And Adolescents Receive Late Diagnosis
A new study finds that 75% of the cases of paediatric bipolar disorder are diagnosed late - up to 18 months - due to the symptoms manifesting themselves in a different manner depending on whether the patient is a child or adult.
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September 10, 2009
Lamotrigine in Acute Bipolar Depression: Two Thumbs Up—or One?
I just read and enjoyed "Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Disorder"1 at www.PsychiatricTimes.com, and wanted to thank the author for pulling together a great deal of useful information in a succinct and lucid format.
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August 12, 2009
Stigma Surrounding Mental Illness Remains Despite Abundant Pharmaceutical Ads
The medicalization of such mental illnesses as depression and bipolar disorder, which have seen prescription drug advertisements on TV skyrocket since such advertising became permissible in 1997, has done nothing to remove the harmful stigma attached to the illnesses, according to sociologists from Indiana University and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
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July 28, 2009
Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Disorder
The concept of treatment resistance in bipolar disorder is clinically familiar but lacks a standard definition.1 Whether the term refers to nonresponse to 1 or more standard treatments, at what dosages, and for what phases of bipolar disorder is unclear. Treatment resistance in bipolar disorder should always be based on a specific phase of treatment: mania or depression and acute or maintenance.
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July 4, 2009
Is CBT Worthless?
According to a new meta-analysis in Psychological Medicine (Lynch et al., 2009), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is not helpful for those with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and any improvements seen in major depression are rather small:Conclusions: CBT is no better than non-specific control interventions in the treatment of schizophrenia and does not reduce relapse rates. It is effective
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