1,2,3 This type of dual disorder is also associated with a larger presence of medical diseases, long-term hospitalisations and attempted suicides.4,5 It also leads to a high rate of comorbidity with anxiety disorders6 and symptoms such as psychomotor agitation,7 which in turn worsen the ...
Estimates suggest that about 2 million Americans suffer from bipolar disorders. Symptoms usually appear in adolescence or early adulthood and continue throughout life. The disorder occurs in males and females equally and is found more frequently in close relatives of people already known to have it....
I am okay with people saying that rapid-extreme shifts in mood after seeing terrible things happen is a ‘bipolar thing’ but not that it is a disorder. This is normal/healthy. It is the police, here who are being abnormal and such actions are unhealthy. === Share this: Still free to...
Background In bipolar-II (BP-II) disorder impulsivity (defined as excessive risky activities by DSM-IV-TR) is one of the symptoms of hypomania. It is unclear if impulsivity is also a trait in BP-II. Study aim The aim was to test if impulsivity was also a trait in BP-II. Methods ...
Participants with more severe depressive and irritability symptoms had lower quality of life and higher functional impairment. All psychiatric comorbid conditions except substance use disorder were associated with worse quality of life. On average, females had lower quality of life than males. Patients ...
The ability to classify patients with bipolar disorder (BD) is restricted by their heterogeneity, which limits the understanding of their neuropathology. Therefore, we aimed to investigate clinically discernible and neurobiologically distinguishable BD subtypes. T1-weighted and resting-state functional magnet...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BD) are highly disabling illnesses defined by different psychopathological, neuroimaging, and cognitive profiles. In the last decades, immune dysregulation has received increasing attention as a central factor in the pathophysiology of these disorders....
Patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder according to the International Classification of Diseases diagnostic Criteria, Edition 10 (ICD 10) and who had never received medication were included in the study. The Montgomery Depression Scale (MADRS) was used to assess depressive symptoms and the Young ...
(75%). About 15% had consumed psychotropic substances or were patients with some type of psychiatric history (5%)2, 3, to the extent that even self-photocoagulation with mirrors has been described in this population4. The case of a patient with bipolar disorder (BD) and acute bilateral ...
It has been underlined that QoL is more impaired in bipolar disorder than in other mood disorders and anxiety disorders. It was also found that, in people with bipolar disorder, QoL was negatively associated with depressive symptoms and episodes. On the other hand, QoL appears to be a ...