Cigarette smoking and psychotic symptoms in bipolar affective disorder

[Why don't we talk about negative psychotic symptoms in affective bipolar disorder?].

The classifications of the psychiatric disorders that we manage1 contemplate the possibility of positive psychotic symptoms being present in bipolar disorder. They describe how these symptoms can appear in both the depressive and the manic and the mixed phases, how they can be congruent or incongruent with patient mood and, lastly, how they can adopt the form of delirium and/or hallucinations. ...

Memantine-related psychotic symptoms in a patient with bipolar disorder.

To the Editor: Memantine is an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor agonist. It was recently approved in Europe and the United States for treating dementia and has been shown to reduce clinical deterioration in moderate-to-severe Alzheimer’s disease and in vascular dementia.1 Although memantine has been reported to be useful for psychotic symptoms (delusions and hallucinations) in patients with...

Psychotic symptoms in social anxiety disorder with bipolar-like progression.

Dear Editor, Previously, our research group discovered that there is a subgroup of social anxiety (SA) patients who improve while taking antidepressants and present a clear hypomanic phase. Without the antidepressant, the symptoms of SA return. SA and bipolar disorder II (BD-II) patients have a similar number of previous depressive episodes, alcohol abuse, suicide attempts, and family history o...

Depressive symptoms are associated with (sub)clinical psychotic symptoms in patients with non-affective psychotic disorder, siblings and healthy controls.

BACKGROUND Depression is a clinically relevant dimension, associated with both positive and negative symptoms, in patients with schizophrenia. However, in siblings it is unknown whether depression is associated with subclinical positive and negative symptoms. Method Depressive symptoms and their association with positive and negative symptoms were examined in 813 healthy siblings of patients wi...

Bipolar affective disorder