Bipolar disorders

Bipolar disorders: a review.

Bipolar disorders are common, disabling, recurrent mental health conditions of variable severity. Onset is often in late childhood or early adolescence. Patients with bipolar disorders have higher rates of other mental health disorders and general medical conditions. Early recognition and treatment of bipolar disorders improve outcomes. Treatment of mood episodes depends on the presenting phase...

Bipolar disorders through history

Cariprazine in bipolar disorders.

Key Study Findings The authors report a multicenter (N = 497), randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study (NCT01058668). Patients were randomly assigned to placebo, cariprazine 3–6 mg/d, or cariprazine 6–12 mg/d for 3 weeks. The primary outcome was change from baseline to week 3 utilizing the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS). Both cariprazine groups were statistically significantly super...

Bipolar disorders and Wilson’s disease

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the risk for Bipolar Disorder (BD) in Wilson's disease (WD) and to measure the impaired Quality of Life (QL) in BD with WD using standardized psychiatric diagnostic tools and a case control design. METHODS This was a case control study. The cases were 23 consecutive patients with WD treated at the University Hospital in Cagliari, Italy, and th...

Psychiatric disorders and behavioral functions in offsprings of bipolar parents

Introduction: Psychiatric disorders and function of child and adolescent offsprings of bipolar parents were compared to that of their peers with healthy parents. Methods: In this case - control study, 52 bipolar parents along with their 72 children were compared with 48 healthy and their 63 children. The subjects were selected by simple and available methods. K-SADS, C-GAS were to collect...