Bipolar Disorder
« Previous EntriesHigh risk criteria validated for bipolar disorder
Monday, July 26th, 2010Source: MedWire News
Researchers have developed criteria to identify young people at high risk for developing bipolar disorder, based on detecting a combination of sub-threshold mania, depressive symptoms, cyclothymic features, and genetic risk.
In a sample of young people seeking help, those who met these new criteria were around 40-times more likely to develop full-blown bipolar disorder […]
Self-management strategies important in bipolar disorder
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Source: MedWire News
High functioning patients with bipolar disorder who have a long history of illness use a range of self-management strategies to aid their well-being, a qualitative study has shown.
Strategies fell into six broad categories: sleep, rest, exercise and diet; ongoing monitoring; enacting a plan; reflective and meditative practices; understanding bipolar disorder; and connecting with […]
Online chart helps bipolar disorder patients log mood
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010Source: MedWire News
Patients with bipolar disorder are more likely to regularly fill out an online mood chart than the standard paper-based version, and generally give more detail about their current condition online, study results show.
“By bringing the chart directly to the patient via email, and leveraging the behaviorally reinforcing properties of email checking, an Internet-based […]
A third of bipolar disorder patients receive inadequate maintenance treatment
Monday, January 25th, 2010Over one-third of bipolar disorder (BD) patients do not receive adequate provision or continuity of maintenance treatment during their first follow-up maintenance phase, indicate study findings.
Studies investigating maintenance treatment in BD have lacked agreement on how the longitudinal treatment phases should be defined, thus presenting inconsistent results.
Erkki Isometsä (Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland) and co-authors […]
A third of patients with bipolar disorder may not receive adequate maintenance treatment.
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010MedWire (1/20, Grasmo) reports that, according to a study published in the Feb. issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders, “over one-third of bipolar disorder (BD) patients do not receive adequate provision or continuity of maintenance treatment during their first follow-up maintenance phase.” After assessing “the adequacy of pharmacologic treatment received by 154 BD patients […]
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