BACKGROUND Patients with bipolar disorder often show decreased adherence with mood stabilizers and frequently interventions on prodromal depressive and manic symptoms are delayed. Recently, the MONARCA I randomized controlled trial investigated the effect of electronic self-monitoring using smartphones on depressive and manic symptoms. The findings suggested that patients using the MONARCA syst...

www.eymj.org Dear Editor: Van Os and Kapur have proposed that the discrete categorical dichotomy of schizophrenia versus bipolar disorder should be changed to a dimensional conceptualization. It is also known that manic symptoms can contribute to the clinical course and prognosis of schizophrenia. Hence, a domain for mania has been included in the Clinician-Rated Dimensions of Psychosis Symptom...

As the diagnostic assessment and pharmacological treatment of mania have advanced during the last fifteen years, mental health professionals have become increasingly interested in the relationship between mania, aggression, and criminality .1-9 Nevertheless, the actual number of manic criminals who have been studied has been low. Good's8 review of 23 studies of manic-depressive defendants and c...

The authors present their experience of prophylactic lithium therapy in seven children diagnosed as manic depressive psychosis, bipolar type, according to International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of lithium as a therapeutic and prophylactic agent for manic depressive illness in children. Side-effects are not a problem if serum lithium lev...