Accurate diagnosis of mood disorders is critical for treatment to be effective. Distinguishing between major depression and bipolar disorders, especially the depressed phase of a bipolar disorder, is essential, because they differ substantially in their genetics, clinical course, outcomes, prognosis, and treatment. In current practice, bipolar disorders, especially bipolar II disorder, are unde...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between affective temperaments and clinical features in bipolar disorder. Testing the relationships between phenomenological features, course, severity of episodes, overall severity of illness and comorbid conditions would clarify the reliability and validity of affective temperamental descriptions. METHODS One hundred...

BACKGROUND Bipolar Affective Disorder is frequently under-diagnosed and misdiagnosed, particularly as unipolar depression. This has serious implications on treatment and outcome of the condition. A community mental health team (CMHT) in Bedford, United Kingdom, has therefore reassessed patients to examine whether it is possible to increase the sensitivity of diagnosis of bipolar affective disor...

PURPOSE Suicide is a major concern for increasing mortality in bipolar patients, but risk factors for suicide in bipolar disorder remain complex, including Korean patients. Medical records of bipolar patients were retrospectively reviewed to detect significant clinical characteristics associated with suicide attempts. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 579 medical records were retrospectively r...

OBJECTIVE To investigate distinguishing features between bipolar I, II and unipolar depression, and impulsivity/aggression traits in particular. METHODS Six hundred and eighty-five (n=685) patients in a major depressive episode with lifetime Unipolar (UP) depression (n=455), Bipolar I (BP-I) disorder (n=151), and Bipolar II (BP-II) (n=79) disorder were compared in terms of their socio-demogra...

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...

objective: the present research aims to analyze the efficacy of group metacognitive therapy (mct) on selfesteem and mental health of those who suffer from major depressive disorder. methods: the research was a randomized clinical controlled trial, using pretest and posttest with 2 months of follow-up. twenty-two patients with major depressive disorder based on dsm-iv-tr criteria were selected t...