J Clin Psychiatry 2015;76(2):e222–e223 (doi:10.4088/JCP.14com09639). © Copyright 2015 Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc. O 40 years ago, clinical observations generated proposals for a distinction among mood-disordered patients between those who experience mania in the course of their illness and those who experience only hypomania.1 Concerns that this distinction could not be made reliably de...

BACKGROUND Some research suggests that children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have a higher than expected risk of bipolar affective disorder. No study has examined the prevalence of bipolar disorder in a UK sample of children with ADHD. AIMS To examine the prevalence of bipolar disorder in children diagnosed with ADHD or hyperkinetic disorder. METHOD Psychopathology s...

Ninety-five years after Kretschmer’s original publication the concept of somatotype in psychiatry remains controversial. The aim of the current study was to compare the somatotype of patients with bipolar I disorder and sex-matched mentally healthy controls using an objective method of somatotyping and predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. 67 bipolar I patients (26 males, 41 females) and...

Directed hypergraphs are widely used as a tool to solve andmodel the problems appearing in computer science and operations research. Bipolar neutrosophic models are more flexible and applicable because these models study neutrosophic behavior positively as well as negatively. In this research study, we present a new frame work for handling bipolar neutrosophic information by combining the bipol...

The notion of bipolar fuzzy set was initiated by Lee (2000) as a generalization of the notion fuzzy sets and intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which have drawn attention of many mathematicians and computer scientists. In this paper, we initiate a study on bipolar ( ,   )-fuzzy sets in -semihypergroups. By using the concept of bipolar ( ,   )-fuzzy sets (Yaqoob and Ansari, 2013), we introduce the ...

This paper seeks to raise awareness of the impact and burden of bipolar depression and the need to improve its recognition and management in clinical practice. Bipolar depression is commonly misdiagnosed as unipolar depression and consequently, patients may receive inappropriate treatment that could potentially worsen symptoms. The Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) is a useful screening tool fo...

This paper consists of a case history and an overview of the relationship, aetiology, and treatment of comorbid bipolar disorder migraine patients. A MEDLINE literature search was used. Terms for the search were bipolar disorder bipolar depression, mania, migraine, mood stabilizer. Bipolar disorder and migraine cooccur at a relatively high rate. Bipolar II patients seem to have a higher risk of...

Simultaneous unipolar and bipolar electrograms were recorded and compared from 49 pacemaker patients with bipolar endocardial electrodes. Average bipolar depolarization signal voltage equalled that of unipolar but showed greater variation. Bipolar and unipolar slew rates were equal in both mean and variance. The proximal pole voltage had little effect on the bipolar result in 8% of the cases, t...

n contrast to the relationship between substance abuse and bipolar disorder, the relationship between bipolar I disorder and anxiety disorders is vastly underexplored, underappreciated, and certainly understudied. This inattention is surprising in light of the fact that anxiety disorders have the highest rate of comorbidity with bipolar disorder , exceeding the comorbidity rate even of substanc...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to: (i) describe the phenomenology of youths diagnosed with subsyndromal bipolar disorders; (ii) describe the phenomenology of youngsters who are the children of bipolar parents, who are also experiencing subsyndromal symptoms of bipolar disorder (patients with 'cyclotaxia'); and (iii) explore which symptoms may be most useful in identifying youths w...