In their innovative article, Daugherty et al. (2009) have modeled the mood swings of a patient with bipolar disorder as a Liénard oscillator with autonomous forcing. They proposed that emotional state of untreated and treated bipolar type-II patient could be mathematically represented by the Equation (1), in which x(t), represents emotional state in time t. In this equation, by adjusting the pa...

OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to show how the cognitive impairment caused by bipolar disorder influenced on the patient's life quality. RESULTS Our case report shows that there exists the dependence between the deterioration of the cognitive impairment caused by the bipolar disorder and increasing level of the patient's quality of life. CONCLUSION The result of our investigation ...

OBJECTIVE Since a poor diet is often cited as a contributor to metabolic syndrome for subjects diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, we sought to examine dietary intake, cigarette smoking, and physical activity in these populations and compare them with those for the general population. METHODS Individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder (n = 116) and schizophrenia (n = 143) were...

Obsessive compulsive disorder and bipolar affective disorder in the pediatric population show a bidirectional overlap. Few studies that have addressed this issue show that the prevalence of obsessive compulsive disorder in bipolar affective disorder patients ranges from 0 to 54%, and 1.85 to 36% of the obsessive compulsive disorder patients have a comorbid bipolar affective disorder. We report ...

conclusions the obtained results confirm some previous studies regardinga gender specific association of maoa gene with the bipolar disorder. results significant associations were observed regarding maoa-ca (p = 0.016) and maoa-vntr (p = 0.004) polymorphisms in the bipolar females. there was no association between maoa-rflp and bipolar disorder. patients and methods this study is a case-control...

BACKGROUND Little is known about whether treatment in a specialised out-patient mood disorder clinic improves long-term prognosis for patients discharged from initial psychiatric hospital admissions for bipolar disorder. AIMS To assess the effect of treatment in a specialised out-patient mood disorder clinic v. standard decentralised psychiatric treatment among patients discharged from one of...

BACKGROUND Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) has a low sensitivity. Electroanatomic voltage mapping (EVM) is effective in guiding EMB thanks to its ability in identifying and locating low-voltage regions. The analysis of unipolar EVM can correlate with epicardial pathological involvement. We evaluated the unipolar EVM in EMB areas to determine whether it can increase EMB sensitivity in diagnosing epi...

The paraneoplastic retinopathies (PRs) are a group of eye diseases characterized by a sudden and progressive dysfunction of the retina caused by an antibody against a protein in a neoplasm. Evidence has been obtained that the transient receptor potential melastatin 1 (TRPM1) protein was one of the antigens for the autoantibody against the ON bipolar cells in PR patients. However, it has not bee...

In this research study, we present a novel frame work for handling bipolar fuzzy soft information by combining bipolar fuzzy soft sets with graphs. We introduce several basic notions concerning bipolar fuzzy soft graphs and investigate some related properties. We also consider the application of the bipolar fuzzy soft graphs. In particular, three efficient algorithms are developed to solve mult...