Advanced parental age appears to confer increased risk for a variety of clinical neuroscience disorders. First described in Down syndrome, advanced parental age at conception has now been linked to schizophrenia and autism. Effects of advanced parental age on risk have been found for both fathers and mothers. Some disorders appear to have more risk with paternal age while other appear to have
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July 5, 2010
Parental Age as a Risk Factor for Bipolar Disorder
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June 10, 2010
Understanding the Switch Process in Bipolar Disorder
(Brain Post Note: Hannah Dunbar is a summer research student from Oral Roberts University. Today she will be summarizing some of the key issues in the neurobiology of the switch process in bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is a somewhat unique mental disorder in that the onset of a mood swing can be quite dramatic--a patient with bipolar disorder can be fine one day and manic the next. It is
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June 3, 2010
The Challenges of Treating Youths With Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder (BD) is recognized as a serious disorder. It has an adverse impact on many areas of a child's development-including cognitive, emotional, and social functioning. Children with BD are at significant risk for substance use and suicidality. Further identification of effective treatments is a pressing public health concern.
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May 20, 2010
Possible Link Between Over-Diagnosis Of Bipolar Disorder And Disability Payments
A study from Rhode Island Hospital finds patients who were "over-diagnosed" with bipolar disorder were more likely to have received disability payments and for a longer period of time. The researchers propose a link between these unconfirmed cases of bipolar disorder and the receipt of the payments...
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March 3, 2010
Has Exercise Treatment A Role In Improving Mood Swings?
A paper that is published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics analyzes the role of exercise treatment in mood swings. Outcomes are frequently suboptimal for patients with bipolar disorder who are treated with pharmacotherapy alone...
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February 5, 2010
In Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder, Life Is Not Black And White
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder affect tens of millions of individuals around the world. These disorders have a typical onset in the early twenties and in most cases have a chronic or recurring course. Neither disorder has an objective biological marker than can be used to make diagnoses or to guide treatment...
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January 9, 2010
To Sleep, Perchance to Reset Your Body Clock
Not long ago, I was consulted on the case of an 11-year-old boy with bipolar disorder who was not able to go to sleep before 1 am. The problem did not seem to stem from ongoing symptoms of bipolar disorder. I did not have the benefit of detailed information about the boy's endogenous circadian rhythms, but I thought a phase-resetting intervention might be helpful. I recommended a 0.3-mg dose of m
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December 30, 2009
WebMD’s Bipolar in Focus
by Joye C. Anestis WebMD can sometimes be a dangerous thing. I have often had to recommend that clients avoid looking at it, as it many times contains information that only makes people more anxious. But Jane Pauley has hosted...
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December 27, 2009
What We’re Like in 2010
Americans in 2010:Belief in psychiatric illness and diagnosis is a pervasive fact of life. We think nothing of hearing people announce they are bipolar to explain why their lives are off track and why they are unhappy. This, after years of watching televised ads about depression - could that be you and I? It's as though a single polarized condition were no longer enough to describe our emoti
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