‘In hypomania, there is an increased pressure of speech with prolixity, an abnormal liveliness of expressive movements, superficial bustling activity and a tendency to be argumentative and irritable if thwarted in any way. The patient is interested in everything, starts many projects, and finishes none . . . the elated mood leads to faulty judgement and a lack of consideration for others . . . ...

Mania due to tricyclic antidepressant use has been well reported in literature but reports of SSRI's induced mania are less. This case reports a sertraline induced mania and discusses the use of this drug in adolescent females.

INTRODUCTION Recent studies indicated that supplementation of phosphatidylcholine has been found to be beneficial for psychiatric diseases and Diacylglycerol Kinase, Eta (DGKH) protein was involved in regulating the metabolism of phosphatidic acid and diacylglycerol. This study reported a case of a 16-year-old Chinese boy with bipolar hypomania symptoms receiving supplementation of phosphatidyl...

Background. Bipolar disorders are often not recognized. Several instruments were developed but none primarily focused on hypomania. The Hypomania Checklist (HCL) is aimed at the identification of bipolarity in outpatients. Using a German and Swedish sample we investigated if the factor structure in non-clinical samples is similar to the one reported for outpatient samples. Furthermore we tested...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to identify risk factors for suicide attempts including bipolarity. METHOD The paper presents the most recent data on suicide attempts and depression with or without hypomanic features from three French "Bipolact", studies including 2249 patients with recurrent or resistant depression. Hypomania and BP-II disorder were defined by a score of 10 or more on the...

Bipolar depression is a serious psychiatric condition with a high rate of completed suicide if not treated effectively [1]. Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is a rapid and effective treatment for bipolar depression [2,3]. There has been limited research, however, examining the rate of “switching” from depression to hypomania or mania during ECT in patients with bipolar disorder (BP), or the clin...

Previous research has demonstrated that hypomania is associated with approach motivation and activity in the left prefrontal cortex (PFC). Other research has linked left motor cortex excitability to approach motivation, suggesting the existence of connections between the motor cortex and PFC. The present research extends this work using unilateral hand contractions to manipulate contralateral c...