How Do Parents With Bipolar Disorder Perceive the Risk to the Next Generation? Results From a Qualitative Study. [PDF]
Bipolar DisordABSTRACT Objectives There are several high‐risk studies of children of parents with bipolar disorder (BD); however, the impact of being an “At‐Risk” parent has seldom been studied. The aim is to explore how parents with BD perceive their potential heredity and how they feel toward their children being invited to take part in high‐risk family studies ...
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Real-world clinical predictors of manic/hypomanic episodes among outpatients with bipolar disorder
PLoS ONE, 2021 Background Bipolar disorder is a mental illness in which manic and depressive states are repeated, causing psychosocial dysfunction. Manic/hypomanic episodes cause problems with interpersonal, social and financial activities, but there is limited ...
Keita Tokumitsu +18 more
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Differential mitochondrial DNA copy number in three mood states of bipolar disorder
BMC Psychiatry, 2018 Background Accumulating evidences indicated that mitochondrial abnormalities were associated with bipolar disorder. As a sensitive index of mitochondrial function and biogenesis, Mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNAcn) may be involved in the ...
Dong Wang +6 more
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Higher illness burden is associated with reduced heart rate variability in bipolar disorder
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction Bipolar disorder (BD) is associated with premature death and ischemic heart disease is the main cause of excess mortality. The predictive power of heart rate variability (HRV) for mortality has been confirmed in patients with or without ...
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Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2017 Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic illness with waxing and waning course. OCD is not uncommonly found to be comorbid with bipolar affective disorder (BPAD). The course and prognosis of OCD have distinctive features in such cases.
Nimmy Chandran +2 more
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Predictors of psychosocial functioning in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder
European Psychiatry, 2023 Introduction Functional impairment is a major target in the treatment of bipolar disorder (BD), but the magnitude and type of functional difficulties differ across patients. Objectives The aim of this study was to assess functioning and identify factors
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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.
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Pharmaceuticals, 2020 Bipolar disorder is a chronic and remitting mental illness. Antidepressants are not effective in treating acute bipolar depression, and antipsychotic drugs used in the treatment of bipolar depression cause frequent side effects.
Marek Krzystanek, Artur Pałasz
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Clinical relevance and treatment possibilities of bipolar rapid cycling [PDF]
, 2002 Bipolar rapid cycling (RC) is defined as 4 or more affective episodes within 1 year. It has been postulated that RC is related to a poor response to lithium, to the same extent as mixed episodes or other atypical symptoms of the illness.
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Scaling behavior of human locomotor activity amplitude: association with bipolar disorder. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Scale invariance is a feature of complex biological systems, and abnormality of multi-scale behaviour may serve as an indicator of pathology. The hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is a major node in central neural networks responsible for ...
Premananda Indic +6 more
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