Awaiting accurate scientific evidence: Progression or “profiles” in bipolar disorder?
International Journal of Bipolar Disorders, 2017 This letter is written in response to a review recently published in the journal. The aim is to highlight a potential methodological limitation common to many studies comparing bipolar patients with few previous episodes versus those with multiple ...
Diego J. Martino +2 more
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PCN Reports, 2022 Aim Previous research shows that telephone consultation is useful in suicide prevention, substance use disorder, and other mental illnesses. However, no study has been conducted with a specific focus on telephone consultation for patients with bipolar ...
Yuko Isogaya +4 more
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Patients’ perspectives of the feasibility, acceptability and impact of a group-based psychoeducation programme for bipolar disorder: a qualitative analysis [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Although there is some quantitative evidence to suggest the benefits of group psychoeducation for people with bipolar disorder, patients’ perspectives and experiences of group psychoeducation require in-depth exploration to enable us to ...
Poole, Ria +2 more
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Neurostructural correlates of retinal microvascular caliber in adolescent bipolar disorder
JCPP Advances, 2021 Objectives Vascular‐brain associations are well established in adults but neglected in youth and psychiatric populations, who are at greater cardiovascular risk.
Megan Mio +10 more
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The Stanley Foundation Bipolar Network: Results of the naturalistic follow-up study after 2.5 years of follow-up in the German centres [PDF]
, 2002 The Stanley Foundation Bipolar Network (SFBN) is an international, multisite network investigating the characteristics and course of bipolar disorder.
Biedermann, N. C. +9 more
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Cognitive impairments and predominant polarity in bipolar disorder: a cross-sectional study
International Journal of Bipolar Disorders, 2017 Background Bipolar disorder (BD) patients exhibit cognitive impairments during euthymic states. Studies suggest that manic episodes may be correlated to cognitive impairments.
Gabriel Okawa Belizario +3 more
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Multimorbidity in bipolar disorder and under-treatment of cardiovascular disease: a cross sectional study [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Individuals with serious mental disorders experience poor physical health, especially increased rates of cardiometabolic morbidity and premature morbidity.
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Childhood IQ and risk of bipolar disorder in adulthood: prospective birth cohort study [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Intellectual ability may be an endophenotypic marker for bipolar disorder. Aims: Within a large birth cohort, we aimed to assess whether childhood IQ (including both verbal IQ (VIQ) and performance IQ (PIQ) subscales) was predictive of ...
Anderson, Jana +5 more
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Acetazolamide in the treatment of acute mania - A case report [PDF]
, 1998 Several antiepileptic drugs are also being used in affective disorders. There are some hints that also the carbonic anhydrase inhibitor acetazolamide might be useful in the treatment of bipolar affective disorder.
Brandt, C. +3 more
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Elevated Familial Cardiovascular Burden Among Adolescents With Familial Bipolar Disorder
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019 Background: Bipolar disorder (BD) is one of the most heritable medical conditions, and certain phenotypic characteristics are especially familial in BD. BD is also strongly associated with elevated and premature cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and
Simina Toma +6 more
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