Psychosocial impairment associated with bipolar II disorder

Cognitive impairment in bipolar II disorder.

BACKGROUND Persistent impairments in neurocognitive function have been described in bipolar disorder. AIMS To compare the cognitive performance of patients with bipolar II disorder with that of patients with bipolar I disorder and a healthy control group. METHOD The study included 71 euthymic patients with bipolar disorder (38 bipolar I, 33 bipolar II), who were compared on clinical and neu...

Schizencephaly associated with bipolar II disorder.

A 55-year-old man with congenital hemiparesis of the right side, three episodes of generalised tonic-clonic seizure at 16 years of age, and two episodes of severe depression and two episodes of hypomania in the past, presented with severe depression with psychotic symptoms. Computed tomography of the brain showed a grey matter-lined cerebrospinal fluid-filled cleft in the left cerebral hemisphe...

Psychosocial Treatments in Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is a common and often disabling major mental illness. It accounts for a high proportion of idiopathic psychotic illnesses, and, together with psychotic disorders, the combined lifetime prevalence may exceed 3% of the general population. Their treatment has been revolutionized by modern pharmacotherapies in the past half-century (Baldessarini and Tarazi, in press). However, thes...

Psychosocial Interventions for Bipolar Disorder

American tertiary clinic-referred bipolar II disorder versus bipolar I disorder associated with hastened depressive recurrence

BACKGROUND Bipolar disorder (BD) is a chronic, frequently comorbid condition characterized by high rates of mood episode recurrence and suicidality. Little is known about prospective longitudinal characterization of BD type II (BD II) versus type I (BD I) in relation to time to depressive recurrence and recovery from major depressive episode. We therefore assessed times to depressive recurrence...