Bipolar Disorder
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Lithium response across generations.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To describe and integrate observations from bipolar patients responsive to lithium stabilization and their children. METHOD: Selected findings are described from the clinical and biological investigations of adults meeting research ... Read more...

Asenapine.

30 Oct 2009 In August 2009, asenapine (Saphris; Schering-Plough) was approved by the US FDA for the acute treatment of schizophrenia and manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder in ... Read more...

Bipolar II postpartum depression: Detection, diagnosis, and treatment.

30 Oct 2009 Research on postpartum mood disorders has focused primarily on major depressive disorder, bipolar I disorder, and puerperal psychosis and has largely ignored or neglected bipolar II disorder. Hypomanic symptoms are common after delivery but ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Bipolar Disorder'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Lithium response across generations. 30 Oct 2009
• Asenapine. 30 Oct 2009
• Bipolar II postpartum depression: Detection, diagnosis, and treatment. 30 Oct 2009
• Closing the gap between guidelines for bipolar disorder treatment and clinical practice. 30 Oct 2009
• Postpartum mood disorders: genetic progress and treatment paradigms. 30 Oct 2009
• Trial that pays patients to take antipsychotic drugs comes under attack. 10 Oct 2009
• Lithium-induced kidney problems. Serious problems are unusual, but monitoring is key. 29 Sep 2009
• Commentary on Crowe M, Inder M, Joyce P, Moor S, Carter J & Luty S (2009) A developmental approach to the treatment of bipolar disorder: IPSRT with an adolescent. Journal of Clinical Nursing 18, 141-149. 29 Sep 2009
• Enhancing multiyear guideline concordance for bipolar disorder through collaborative care. 29 Sep 2009
• Anxiety and outcome in bipolar disorder. 29 Sep 2009
• A reverse-translational study of dysfunctional exploration in psychiatric disorders: from mice to men. 29 Sep 2009
• Combination treatment with quetiapine in bipolar disorder patients. 29 Sep 2009
• Maintenance treatment for patients with bipolar disorder. 29 Sep 2009
• Comparative study of neurocognitive function in euthymic bipolar patients and stabilized schizophrenic patients. 13 Sep 2009
• Asenapine approved for treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder. 13 Sep 2009
• Genome-wide linkage and follow-up association study of postpartum mood symptoms. 13 Sep 2009
• The P300 as a possible endophenotype for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Evidence from twin and patient studies. 9 Sep 2009
• Acute psychiatric illness in a young woman: an unusual form of encephalitis. 5 Sep 2009
• Dissociable brain structural changes associated with predisposition, resilience, and disease expression in bipolar disorder. 31 Aug 2009
• Clinical outcomes and quality of life in patients submitted to electroconvulsive therapy. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Bipolar Disorder'

Definition: A major affective disorder marked by severe mood swings (manic or major depressive episodes) and a tendency to remission and recurrence.

Descriptor UI: D001714

Alternative terms: Bipolar Disorder; Bipolar Disorders; Disorder, Bipolar; Psychosis, Manic-Depressive; Psychosis, Manic Depressive; Manic-Depressive Psychosis; Manic Depressive Psychosis; Affective Psychosis, Bipolar; Bipolar Affective Psychosis; Psychoses, Bipolar Affective; Psychosis, Bipolar Affective; Psychoses, Manic-Depressive; Manic-Depressive Psychoses; Psychoses, Manic Depressive; Mania; Manias; Manic State; Manic States; State, Manic; States, Manic; Depression, Bipolar; Bipolar Depression; Manic Disorder; Disorder, Manic; Manic Disorders;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.600.150.150;

History Note: 81(63)