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Patients with Bipolar I Disorder Have Reduced White Matter Integrity
Mar 3, 2014By Eleanor McDermid, Senior medwireNews Reporter Research shows that patients with bipolar I disorder have reduced white matter integrity, including in the corpus callosum, which connects the brain's hemispheres. Furthermore, reduced ...
Tags: Interhemispheric, Bipolar Disorder
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Pregnant and Postpartum Women Have Significant Mental Health and Mothering Challenges
Feb 27, 2014Pregnant and postpartum women with bipolar disorder more frequently have significant mental health and early mothering challenges than other perinatal women undergoing psychiatric treatment, according to a study in the Journal of Affective ...
Tags: Pregnant Woman, Mental Health, BD, PTSD
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OCD Should Be Treated as Having Bipolar Disorder
Feb 27, 2014Most patients with both bipolar disorder and obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) should be treated as having bipolar disorder, researchers suggest. In their systematic review of OCD and bipolar disorder comorbidity, they found that, ...
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Young Girls with Mental Illness Are More Likely to Become Teenage Parents
Feb 26, 2014Young girls with mental illness are three times more likely to become teenage parents than those without a major mental illness, according to a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) ...
Tags: ICES, Mental Illness, Fertility Rates, journal Pediatric
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Patients with Depression Have Areas of Reduced Cortical Thickness
Jan 23, 2014Patients with depression have areas of reduced cortical thickness, with clear distinctions between those with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder (MDD), report US researchers. "Cortical thickness may prove to be a useful tool ...
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Patients with MDD Increased Use of Maladaptive and Decreased Use of Adaptive ER Strategies
Jan 16, 2014By Lucy Piper, Senior medwireNews Reporter Patients with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder (MDD) have increased use of maladaptive and decreased use of adaptive emotion regulation (ER) strategies, researchers report. ...
Tags: emotion regulation, Larissa Wolkenstein, University of Tübingen
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An RNA Sequencing Study Has Shown Altered Expression of Genes and Transcripts
Jan 16, 2014By Eleanor McDermid, Senior medwireNews Reporter An RNA sequencing study of patients with bipolar disorder has shown altered expression of genes and transcripts, including those involved in neuroplasticity and circadian rhythms. Nirmala ...
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Cardiovascular Comorbidities May Be Going Under-Recognized and Undertreated in Patients
Jan 13, 2014Cardiovascular comorbidities may be going under-recognized and undertreated in patients with bipolar disorder, say UK researchers. This is despite the UK having a healthcare system that is free at the point of access, they note. "This ...
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Extending Treatment with The Smoking Cessation Drug Chantix May Help Them Avoid a Relapse
Jan 9, 2014For people with serious mental illness who are trying to quit smoking, extending their treatment with the smoking cessation drug Chantix (varenicline) may help them avoid a relapse, according to a new study. After a standard 12-week ...
Tags: mental illness, quit smoking, Chantix, avoid relapse
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Chronotherapy Brings About a Rapid Reduction in Suicidality
Jan 6, 2014By Eleanor McDermid, Senior medwireNews Reporter Chronotherapy, involving total sleep deprivation and light therapy, brings about a rapid reduction in suicidality among patients with bipolar disorder experiencing a phase of major ...
Tags: chronotherapy, total sleep deprivation, light therapy, bipolar disorder
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Individuals with Severe Mental Illness Are More Likely to Die Younger
Jan 3, 2014In the largest ever assessment of substance use among people with severe psychiatric illness, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Southern California have found that rates of smoking, ...
Tags: psychiatric illness, psychotic disorders, rates of smoking
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BBRF Has Announced The Latest Recipients of Its Narsad Distinguished Investigator Grants
Nov 12, 2013The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) (formerly known as NARSAD, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression), under the direction of president and CEO Dr Jeffrey Borenstein, has announced the latest ...
Tags: Narsad, BBRF, investigator, award
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ETH-Zurich Has Reported Increased Maximum Oscillation Frequency
Aug 9, 2013ETH-Zurich has reported increased maximum oscillation frequency for its indium phosphide/gallium arsenide antimonide (InP/GaAsSb) double-heterostructure bipolar transistors (DHBTs) [Rickard L?vblom et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, ...
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Grupo Ferrer Internacional Has Begun Sales of Adasuve Inhalation Powder
Aug 2, 2013Grupo Ferrer Internacional, Alexza Pharmaceuticals' commercial partner, has begun sales of Adasuve inhalation powder, pre-dispensed (Staccato Loxapine) in the European Union (EU). The first sale triggered a $1.25m milestone payment to ...
Tags: Inhalation Powder, Grupo
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The USFDA Has Cleared Actavis's ANDA for Lamotrigine Orally Disintegrating Tablets
Jul 17, 2013The USFDA has cleared Actavis' abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) for Lamotrigine orally disintegrating tablets, 25mg, 50mg, 100mg and 200mg. A generic version of GlaxoSmithKline's Lamictal ODT, the antiepileptic drug is indicated ...
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