ALLMedicine™ Bipolar Disorder Center

Mar 27th, 2023 - Identifying patients most at risk of psychiatric hospitalisation is crucial to improving service provision and patient outcomes. Existing predictors focus on specific clinical scenarios and are not validated with real-world data, limiting their tr...

Mar 27th, 2023 - Impaired social cognition is common in bipolar disorder (BD) and predicts poor functional outcomes. A critical determinant of social cognition is the ability to discriminate others' gaze direction, and its alteration may contribute to functional i...

Mar 26th, 2023 - Therapeutic patient education (TPE) programs are psycho-educational treatments suggested for all chronic diseases. For several years, these programs have been developing for people living with bipolar disorder. However, to date, only few qualitati...

Mar 26th, 2023 - Individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) require chronic pharmacotherapy, typically including medication switches or polypharmacy due to persisting symptoms or intolerable side effects. Here, we quantified pharmacotherapy exposure (PE) of Mayo Clini...

Mar 26th, 2023 - Although cross-sectional studies show heterogeneity in emotional cognition in bipolar disorder (BD), the temporal course within subgroups is unclear. In this prospective, longitudinal study we assessed the trajectories of emotional cognition subgr...

Oct 3rd, 2021 - The 2018 Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) guidelines provided clinicians with pragmatic treatment recommendations for bipolar disorder (BD). While these guidelines inc...

Sep 28th, 2018 - Physical activity (PA) may be therapeutic for people with severe mental illness (SMI) who generally have low PA and experience numerous life style-related medical complications. We conducted a meta-review of PA interventions and their impact on he...

Mar 15th, 2018 - The Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) previously published treatment guidelines for bipolar disorder in 2005, along with international commentaries and subsequent updates in 2007, 2009, and 2013. The last two updates were p...

Sep 13th, 2017 - To aid the development of treatment for cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder, the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) convened a task force to create a consensus-based guidance paper for the methodology and design of cognition t...

Apr 17th, 2017 - DBSA envisions wellness for people living with depression and bipolar disorder.

Mar 23rd, 2023 - Maintenance of employment is dependent upon being able to successfully integrate into one's work setting. This can present a significant challenge to individuals with serious mental illness, as they typically exhibit impairment in their ability to...

Mar 21st, 2023 - Bipolar disorder is a severe chronic mood disorder that affects up to 4% of the adult population and 1.8% of the pediatric population in the United States. The treatment of the depressive episodes of bipolar disorder in the pediatric population ha...

Mar 17th, 2023 - The proposed single-arm pilot will examine the feasibility and acceptability of a brief behavioral treatment for reducing suicidal ideation and for increasing reasons for living in caregivers of Veterans with dementia. The proposed study will exam...

Mar 16th, 2023 - Background: Children born to parents with severe mental illness like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major recurrent depression have an increased risk of developing a mental illness themselves during life. These children are also more likely to...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Study Design: The investigators propose a multicentre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in patients with BD who are currently experiencing a depressive episode. The trial will consist of two phases: an open-label acute treatment ...

Mar 22nd, 2023 - Genetic susceptibility to mood disorders may also play a causal role in stroke, according to a population-based prospective cohort study in Sweden. A higher polygenic risk score (PRS) for mood disorders consistently tracked with both all strokes a...

Mar 22nd, 2023 - New research finds that patients who spike their urine with buprenorphine to cheat adherence testing are more likely to be positive for non-prescribed opioids, highlighting the need for best practices in this setting. "Spiking suggests that treatm...

Mar 21st, 2023 - A tendency towards harm avoidance was a significant predictor of later depression, based on long-term data from nearly 4,000 individuals. Temperament has been defined as “an individual’s propensity to react emotionally, learn behavior and to form.

Mar 15th, 2023 - The Diagnosis: Darier Disease A clinical diagnosis of Darier disease was made from the skin findings of pruritic, malodorous, keratotic papules in a seborrheic distribution and pathognomonic nail dystrophy, along with a family history that demonst.

Feb 17th, 2023 - Older patients prescribed an atypical antipsychotic for hospitalization-related delirium more often stayed on it past the recommended duration than if prescribed a typical antipsychotic, researchers reported. Among nearly 6,000 patients 65 and old...