ey Words: Bipolar Spectrum Disorder, Behavioral Approach System (BAS), Cognitive Styles e associa relevant and non-BAS-relevant cognitive styles with bipolar spectrum disorders. Controlling for depressive and hypomanic/manic symptoms, 195 individuals with bipolar spectrum disorders sco higher than 194 demographically matched normal controls on BAS sensitivity and BAS-relevant cogni dimensions o...

Computer linkage of an obstetric register and a psychiatric case register made it possible to investigate the temporal relationship between childbirth and psychiatric contact in a population of 470 000 people over a 12-year period: 54 087 births resulted in 120 psychiatric admissions within 90 days of parturition [corrected]. The 'relative risk' of admission to a psychiatric hospital with a psy...

Although rarely reported, the induction of hypomanic/manic episodes due to sudden or gradual cessation of antidepressant drugs is a phenomenon observed in clinical settings. Herein we present 2 patients that had manic episodes induced by gradual cessation of antidepressant drugs. Common features of both cases were as follows: patients were female; a major depressive episode was the reason for s...

Bipolar affective disorder (BD) diagnosis and initiation of appropriate treatment are often delayed, and this is associated with poorer outcomes, such as rapid cycling or cognitive decline. Therefore, identifying certain warning signs of a probable successive episode during the inter-episode phase is important for early intervention. We present the retrospective data of three cases of BD. Our f...

Dr. Chittaranjan Andrade shared a case in a letter to the editor in the July 2001 issue of Indian Journal of Psychiatry (Andrade, 2001) and he, as proposed by Dr. Fink (Fink, 2001) must be congratulated for bringing this treatable, life threatening condition to the notice of psychiatric fraternity and we must also thank Dr. Fink for giving guidelines to manage excited manic patients in the same...

The use of atypical antipsychotics in treatment of psychiatric diseases is getting more widespread every day. These drugs are called atypical because they provide improvement not only in the positive symptoms, but also in negative symptoms. Also, they have less adverse effects on the extrapyramidal system and tardive dyskinesia, and they do not cause hyperprolactinemia (Stahl 2008). All atypica...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy in the treatment of Bipolar I Disorder patients with a single manic episode. METHOD In a retrospective study, we reviewed medical records of inpatients who had been admitted to treat a single manic episode of Bipolar I Disorder at Noor University Hospital, Isfahan, Iran between September 2004 and December 2008. RESULTS Out...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate patients with bipolar I disorder (BD-I) who have mania with depressive symptoms and who meet the new "with mixed features" specifier of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5). METHOD This prospective, multinational, naturalistic study surveyed psychiatrists and their patients with BD-I from October 2013 to March ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine whether adjunctive use of a psychostimulant (mixed amphetamine salts) was safe and efficacious for treatment of symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in pediatric outpatients with bipolar I or bipolar II disorder and concurrent ADHD whose manic symptoms had been stabilized through treatment with divalproex sodium. METH...

Non-small cell lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-associated mortality worldwide and adenocarcinoma its most common type. The fringe protein family can modulate Notch receptors to regulate pathways affect a variety physiological processes, such as embryo development tumor formation. To investigate influence manic expression on prognosis patients evaluate correlation with immune suppress...