Bipolar Disorder News

Treatment of bipolar disorder is complicated by the multiple phases of the illness, dimensional symptomatology that varies considerably across individuals, and a limited spectrum of activity for all mood stabilizers.

Most bipolar disorder research has concentrated on episodes of MDD and mania and yet minor and subsyndromal symptoms are three times more common during the long-term course.

Despite the fact that BPD and bipolar disorder are vastly different psychiatric conditions with very different causes as well as treatments the two are very often confused and even misdiagnosed by mental health professionals.

There are lulls, obstacles and challenges that come with day-to-day life. It's the silent phone when you're waiting for a call back from a potential employer/client or a person you really like.

However, there has been a lack of studies identifying neural substrates responsible for social cognitive difficulties in BD patients.

Bipolar disorder is associated to persistent functional impairments. Although many researches have shown that bipolar individuals might have cognitive deficits, a small number of studies evaluated the role of problems of social cognitive Theory of Mind processing in the emergence of bipolar disorder's symptoms and its possible social poor outcomes.

Singer Nick Carter's sister Leslie suffered an overdose after taking a mixture of prescription drugs to treat depression and mental illness, according to an incident report filed by emergency service officials.

When one mentions lithium, most people have a negative reaction. They think of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , drooling, and lobotomies.

A long-running NIMH initiative, the Treatment of Early Age Mania study presented its most recent scientific paper on October 21st, 2011, at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Toronto, Canada and published its findings online at the website of the Archives of General Psychiatry ... (more)

Current psychiatric disorder classifications are based exclusively on categorical models, which were designed to increase the reliability of diagnoses.

The window between the therapeutic dose of lithium and the toxic dose is almost vanishingly small.

The most effective long-term treatment for bipolar disorder is lithium. It offers protection against depression and mania and reduces the risk of suicide and short-term mortality.

Everyone who has bipolar disorder has their own specific problems. And while I know quite a lot about bipolar, my personal experience is limited to occasional hypomanic episodes and a ton of depressive episodes.

Physicians should feel confident prescribing lithium for patients with bipolar disorder, according to an Oxford University study in which the potential side effects of the drug were evaluated.

Unlike a lot of psychiatry experts who treat or research mental illness , Kay Redfield Jamison actually has one.

Lithium's side effects should prompt regular clinical monitoring, but a meta-analysis in the Lancet "reaffirms its role as a treatment of choice for bipolar disorder," according to commentators.

A new review published today in The Lancet found that in addition to the known potential for causing weight gain, taking lithium may increase the activity of the thyroid and parathyroid glands.

THURSDAY, Jan. 19 -- A new medical review finds that lithium, a common treatment for bipolar disorder, can lead to weight gain and causes high rates of abnormalities in the thyroid and parathyroid glands.

First sublingual treatment for moderate to severe manic episodes associated with bipolar I disorder, one of the leading causes of disability[1] affecting an estimated 623,000 patients in the UK,[2,3] becomes available today[4] Lundbeck Ltd today announced that SycrestA is being launched in the UK for the treatment of moderate to severe manic ... (more)