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Abstract Introduction Adolescents with bipolar disorder are at ultra-high risk of suicide and poor psychosocial functioning. Sleep is impaired during periods depression, mania, euthymia in adults may be a transdiagnostic factor for new onset mood symptoms. worsens adolescence, but less known about the interrelationships between sleep symptoms adolescents disorder. Methods Participants included ...

ISSN 1758-2008 10.2217/NPY.11.21 © 2011 Future Medicine Ltd Neuropsychiatry (2011) 1(3), 251–257 Summary The hypothesis that many mental disorders fall within a bipolar spectrum, and that the mood instability that characterizes borderline personality disorder puts it into this spectrum is critically reviewed. This conclusion is based on phenomenological resemblances, and does not consider diffe...

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Sir: Bipolar II disorder is a valid and reliable diagnosis and its prevalence in society is higher than was once assumed. Considering the fact that the main clinical presentation of bipolar II disorder is composed of depressive symptoms and the fact that the retrospective diagnosis of episodes of hypomania is often difficult, there has been an increased concern about the underdiagnosis of bipol...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this retrospective study was an analysis of antidepressant-induced mood conversions to mania/hypomania occurring in bipolar inpatients treated with antidepressants in the Affective Disorder Unit of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, in the years 1972-1996. METHODS The data for analysis were obtained retrospectively from clinical records. In a subgroup of ...

OBJECTIVE Experiencing romantic love is an important part of individual development. Here, we investigated stability and change in romantic love and psychological correlates, including mood states, anxiety, and sleep, among Iranian adolescents over a period of 8 months. METHOD Two hundred and one adolescents who had taken part in a previous study were contacted; 157 responded. Participants co...

The frequency of bipolar II disorder (BD II) is higher than the 0.5% community prevalence reported in DSM-IV-TR (1): rates are 11% in the community (2,3) and 30% to 60% in outpatients suffering from depression (4,5). Diagnostic criteria for “bipolar spectrum disorder” (6) include major depressive episode (MDE), no spontaneous mania or hypomania, family history of BD, and (or) antidepressantindu...

INTRODUCTION Males and females in the general population differ, on average, in their drive for empathizing (higher in females) and systemizing (higher in males). People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show a drive for systemizing over empathizing, irrespective of sex, which led to the conceptualisation of ASD as an 'extreme of the typical male brain'. The opposite cognitive profile, an 'ex...

BACKGROUND Fatigue is a common symptom of depression, especially the bipolar type. Modafinil is a wake-promoting agent that can alleviate fatigue in depressed patients. Many stimulants used to treat fatigue carry the risk of a switch into mania or hypomania in bipolar patients as well as the risk for tolerance or abuse. METHOD A retrospective chart review was performed on all patients current...