Olympic champ Tori Bowie's mental health struggles were no secret inside track's tight-knit family
Olympic gold medalist Tori Bowie’s autopsy included an easy-to-overlook notation beneath the heading “Medical History:” Bipolar disorder (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
The interplay between genetics and epigenetics in individuals who attempted suicide - Alrfooh A, Argue B, Richards JG, Williams A, Wemmie J, Magnotta V, Fiedorowicz J, Gaine M.
Individuals with bipolar disorder have a significantly higher risk for suicidal behavior than the general population. Separately, bipolar disorder and suicide have strong genetic components, with high heritability estimates. However, this estimation also s... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
The risk for schizophrenia-bipolar spectrum: does the apple fall close to the tree? A narrative review - Cattarinussi G, Gugliotta AA, Sambataro F.
Schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) are severe psychiatric disorders that share clinical features and several risk genes. Important information about their genetic underpinnings arises from intermediate phenotypes (IPs), quantifiable biological t... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
NRX-101 (D-cycloserine plus lurasidone) vs. lurasidone for the maintenance of initial stabilization after ketamine in patients with severe bipolar depression with acute suicidal ideation and behavior: a randomized prospective phase 2 trial - Nierenberg A, Lavin P, Javitt DC, Shelton R, Sapko MT, Mathew S, Besthof RE, Javitt JC.
BACKGROUND: We tested the hypothesis that, after initial improvement with intravenous ketamine in patients with bipolar disorder (BD) with severe depression and acute suicidal thinking or behavior, a fixed-dose combination of oral D-cycloserine (DCS) and l... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Program and Other Evaluations, Effectiveness Studies Source Type: news
Neuroanatomical and functional substrates of the hypomanic personality trait and its prediction on aggression - Zhu W, Chen X, Wu J, Li Z, Im H, Chen S, Deng K, Zhang B, Wei C, Feng J, Zhang M, Yang S, Wang H, Wang Q.
Hypomanic personality manifests a close link with several psychiatric disorders and its abnormality is a risk indicator for developing bipolar disorders. We systematically investigated the potential neuroanatomical and functional substrates underlying hypo... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
Behavioral self-regulation in pediatric bipolar disorder and healthy offspring of bipolar patients - Rocca CCA, Caetano SC, Belizario GO, Kleinman A, de Abreu LN, Lafer B, Busatto GF, Gomes BC.
This study investigated behavioral self-regulation problems using the Children's Hostility Inventory (CHI) in pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD), healthy offspring of bipolar disorder patients (HOBD), and healthy controls (HC) without previous hi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Differences in non-suicidal self-injury behaviors between unipolar depression and bipolar depression in adolescent outpatients - Wang TW, Gong J, Wang Y, Liang Z, Pang KL, Wang JS, Zhang ZG, Zhang CY, Zhou Y, Li JC, Wang YN, Zhou YJ.
This study examined the differences in NSSI behaviors between adolescents with unipolar depression (UD) and those wit... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Jury Still Out on Maintenance Therapy for Bipolar Depression Jury Still Out on Maintenance Therapy for Bipolar Depression
A trial of antidepressant maintenance therapy in bipolar I depression missed its primary endpoint but suggests some benefit in prolonging time to another depressive episode.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines)
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines - August 11, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
Extended Use of Antidepressants May Help People With Bipolar Disorder
THURSDAY, Aug. 10, 2023 -- Modern antidepressants could be effective for long-term treatment of some patients with bipolar disorder, a new trial suggests.
Current guidelines discourage use of antidepressants in these patients, over concerns that the... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - August 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Ancestry May Predict Bipolar Patients' Response to Lithium Ancestry May Predict Bipolar Patients' Response to Lithium
Ancestry was a significant predictor of response to lithium by adults with bipolar disorder, based on data from 172 individuals.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines)
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines - August 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
Ego functions, defense style ; conflicts: a psychodynamic study on bipolar ; depressive disorders - Biswas MA, Das PS.
The mechanisms of Ego have been proved to play a pivotal role in the psychopathology of mood disorders. The present research endeavors a comparative study on Bipolar and Depressive disorder, from the psychodynamic perspective of Ego functions, Defense styl... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
South Africa: SA's New Mental Health Plan and the Problem of Stigma
[spotlight] Before being diagnosed with bipolar disorder Type 1, Sifiso Mkhasibe says he was often labelled as the "black sheep" of the family and he did not know where to go for help. He was often dismissed as crazy and told that this is a white man's illness. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 5, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Source Type: news
Prolonged Antidepressant Treatment No Benefit in Bipolar I Disorder
THURSDAY, Aug. 3, 2023 -- For patients with bipolar I disorder who had recently had remission of a depressive episode, adjunctive treatment with escitalopram or bupropion XL that continues for 52 weeks does not show a significant benefit compared... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - August 3, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Antidepressant Maintenance No Help for Bipolar I Depressive Episode
(MedPage Today) -- Continuing adjunctive antidepressant treatment for up to a year following remission of an acute depressive episode in patients with bipolar I disorder showed no significant benefit for preventing relapse, a randomized trial showed... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - August 3, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Bipolar Tied to a Sixfold Increased Risk of Early Death Bipolar Tied to a Sixfold Increased Risk of Early Death
Bipolar disorder is linked to a sixfold increased risk of premature death from external causes and a twofold increased risk of early death from somatic disease than the general population.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
