ALLMedicine™ Bipolar Disorder Center

May 15th, 2022 - Contemporary theories of suicide, such as the Schematic Appraisals Model (SAMS), hypothesize that negative perceptions of social support are implicated in the pathways to suicidal experiences. The SAMS predicts that perceived social support influe...

May 15th, 2022 - Emerging evidence suggests white matter network abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD), but the alterations in dynamics of the white matter network in patients with SZ and BD are largely unknown. The white matt...

May 14th, 2022 - Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging technique that detects retinal changes reflecting neurodegeneration. In recent studies in patients with bipolar disorder (BD) abnormal OCT findings have shown. In this study, we aimed to...

May 14th, 2022 - Few studies have reported socio-economic status and functioning in patients newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder (BD) and their unaffected siblings (US). Socio-economic status and functioning were compared in a cross-sectional clinical study incl...

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...

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.

May 13th, 2022 - This protocol leverages existing NIMH studies and participants to accomplish time-sensitive research on the mental health impact of environmental stressors imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The study will describe the relationship between stressor...

May 4th, 2022 - The primary goals of this proof of concept study are to determine the effectiveness, safety and tolerability of FMT in adults with BD depression. Objective 1: To evaluate the effectiveness of the combination of a currently accepted approved therap...

May 3rd, 2022 - This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study that will assess the safety, efficacy, and PK of miricorilant in obese patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder who are currently taking oral or injectable atypical antipsychotic ...

May 2nd, 2022 - This study aims to examine the effect of electroencephalography (EEG)-guided theta burst stimulation (TBS) on reducing mania/hypomania-related affect and reward driven behavior in adults with BD. Eligible participants will undergo 6 study visits: ...

Apr 27th, 2022 - Pharmacological options for the treatment of Bipolar disorder (BD) are limited and a large proportion of patients does not show adequate response to treatment, especially in the case of bipolar depression. It has been hypothesized that dysfunction...

May 5th, 2022 - Mood instability, or sudden, unpredictable, and frequent shifts in emotional states, characterizes many types of psychiatric disorder, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), personality disorders, depression, and posttraumatic.

May 2nd, 2022 - CASE An apparent code blue Ms. B, age 44, has posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

May 2nd, 2022 - Psychiatrists who treat women of childbearing age should consider that those women may become pregnant, and that women with psychiatric illness are more likely to have unplanned pregnancies. 1 Thus, thoughtful perinatal medication choices should be.

Apr 29th, 2022 - A medical home that provides conventional primary care with a focus on mental health appears to be an effective model for managing patients with serious psychiatric illnesses, new research has found. Patients with serious mental illnesses such as ...

Apr 28th, 2022 - Patients with schizophrenia are at increased risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) compared with the general population, according to large study from Taiwan that provides more evidence of a gut-brain link. The study also shows that ...