Peer conformity and achievement in female manic-depressives.

Risk of suicide in the relatives of schizophrenics, manics, depressives, and controls.

The risk of suicide among the first-degree relatives of 195 schizophrenic and 315 manic-depressive patients in a long-term study was estimated. The findings demonstrate a higher risk of suicide among relatives of psychiatric patients in comparison with relatives of surgical controls. Male relatives had a higher risk of suicide than female relatives. When suicide risk in the relatives was analyz...

Psychiatric illness in the adult offspring of bipolar manic-depressives.

Forty-eight of the 50 living adult offspring of 16 bipolar patients were interviewed. Data was available on the 2 other offspring, who had previously suicided. One half of the offspring met criteria for psychiatric illness, the majority of which was either primary affective or other affective disorder. The mean age of onset of illness was middle to late adolescence, earlier than that generally ...

A controlled investigation of plasma lipids in manic-depressives.

Brainstorm: Manic Depression, Occupational Choice And Creativity

Manic-depressive illness (bipolar disorder) afflicts approximately 2.3 million American adults. Although earnings, unemployment, and labor force participation patterns have been analyzed for manic-depressives in the economics literature, occupational choice has yet to be explored. A number of psychiatric studies link bipolar illness and occupational choice, focusing on occupational creativity. ...

Patients Who Discontinue Day Hospitalisation - an Analysis

Treatment discontinuation has been noted as a problem with psychiatric patients. This would equally be the case when long term measures for the rehabilitation of the mentally ill are concerned. In this study of patients who discontinued psychiatric day hospitalisation, it was found that over 90 % had dropped out in the first month of treatment. Schizophrenics, Manic Depressives, Epileptics and ...