ALLMedicine™ Bipolar Affective Disorder Center

May 14th, 2022 - This study evaluated the impact of nurse-led medication adherence therapy (MAT) on medication adherence behavior and symptom severity of inpatients with bipolar disorder. Two arms, single-blind, randomized controlled trial on individuals with bipo...

Mar 29th, 2022 - We present the case of a young gentleman with diagnoses of bipolar affective disorder, high body mass index, and obstructive sleep apnoea. He was commenced on zuclopenthixol due to an inadequate response to quetiapine, but this swiftly led to mark...

Mar 25th, 2022 - A proportion of patients with bipolar disorder (BD) manifests with only unipolar mania (UM). This study examined relevant clinical features and psychosocial characteristics in UM compared with depressive-manic (D-M) subgroups. Moreover, comorbidit...

Mar 18th, 2022 - Dementia is the leading cause of death in elderly Western populations. Preventative interventions that could delay dementia onset even modestly would provide a major public health impact. There are no disease-modifying treatments currently availab...

Mar 12th, 2022 - Evidence for the treatment of bipolar affective disorder with cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) is limited, and so this study sought to intensively evaluate outcomes in a co-produced single-case experimental design (SCED). An A1 /B/A2 /C with exten...

Jan 25th, 2022 - Bipolar affective disorder or manic -depressive psychosis (MDP) is a mood disorder affecting 2.4% of the global population. Lithium is considered as the "gold standard" for the treatment of bipolar disorder but the clinical use of lithium is often...

Mar 19th, 2020 - Male and female smokers will be recruited from the New Haven area through newspaper advertisements, radio advertisements, and fliers. Interested subjects will have the study described over the telephone, and they will be asked to answer a brief to...

Nov 20th, 2019 - Bipolar affective disorder (BAD) is often poorly controlled by prescribed drugs. Clinical observations suggest that the endocannabinoid system is dysfunctional in BAD and fails to control the level of cortical excitation and inhibition in the brai...

Jul 2nd, 2015 - Bipolar affective disorder is a debilitating illness, and is characterized by depression episodes that dominates the longitudinal course and are most difficult to treat. Controlled trials with monotherapy mood stabilizers such as lithium and valpr...

Jun 1st, 2015 - Bipolar affective disorder is a medical illness with substantial morbidity and mortality. Further fueling the severity of this illness is the substantial co-occurrence with substance abuse that together poses an enormous public health problem. Thi...

Mar 17th, 2022 - Treatment with lithium may be protective against dementia and its subtypes, a retrospective cohort study indicated. Among patients receiving mental health care, those exposed to lithium at standard clinical dosages had a 44% lower risk of receivin...

Nov 4th, 2019 - Notwithstanding the usual suspects that hinder electronic health record (EHR) implementation—initial costs, interoperability problems, training burdens, and altered physician-patient dynamics—there's also the risk of a pure system malfunction. In ...

Nov 4th, 2019 - Notwithstanding the usual suspects that hinder electronic health record (EHR) implementation—initial costs, interoperability problems, training burdens, and altered physician-patient dynamics—there's also the risk of a pure system malfunction. In ...

Jun 22nd, 2018 - Bipolar disorder — sometimes classified as bipolar affective disorder or manic-depressive illness — is a common, severe, and persistent mental illness. Bipolar disorder is characterized by periods of deep, prolonged, and profound depression that a...

Jun 22nd, 2018 - Bipolar disorder — sometimes classified as bipolar affective disorder or manic-depressive illness — is a common, severe, and persistent mental illness. Bipolar disorder is characterized by periods of deep, prolonged, and profound depression that a...