Bipolar disorder is a mental disease that can be presented as irritable mood with affective storms, mixed symptoms of depression and mania, rapid cycles, emotional labiality and irritability during all episodes. A confirmed positive familial history of the disease is the single most robust risk factor for developing the illness. This report presents 5.5 years-old girl with the symptoms of bipol...

From the Mental Health Research Institute (S.C.D.). Department of Psychiatry (S.C.D.. M.J.M.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Supported by Physician Scientist Career Development Award (Muscarinic Receptor Abnormalities in Affective Illness) SRC IKI I MHO055302 and NIH 2507RR0538300025. Address reprint requests to Dr. S.C. Dilsaver. Depanment of Psychiatry, Division of Neuroscience, Ohio ...

A case of recurrent pre and postpartum psychosis is described. Pre-partum psychosis was more severe in intensity when compared with postpartum psychosis and, if untreated, it may have continued as postpartum psychosis. Presence of bipolar affective illness in the family, ongoing stressor and unplanned pregnancy may be the risk factors for developing pregnancy- related psychosis. This case repor...

BACKGROUND Most studies of services for people with severe mental illness have been performed in cities. Our 7-year follow-up study aimed to investigate clinical course and satisfaction with services among individuals with severe mental illness who received community mental health services in a rural area. The services were provided by primary care and a community mental health center (CMHC), w...

Abstract Research has found strong evidence for common and distinct morphometric brain abnormality profiles in nonaffective psychosis (NAff-P) affective (Aff-P). Due to chronicity prolonged medication exposure confounds, it is crucial examine structural morphometry early the course of psychosis. Using Human Connectome Project-Early Psychosis data, multivariate profile analyses were implemented ...

BACKGROUND For affective disorders, imparting information about the illness has become standard treatment. Despite the great clinical relevance of knowledge about depression, few empirical studies on this subject have been carried out. The aim of the study was to identify the prognostic value of knowledge about affective disorders for the two year outcome of depression. METHODS 62 first-hospi...

Although schizophrenia alters the sense of personal identity, little is known about the impact of illness-related autobiographical events on patients' self-representation. We investigated self-defining memories (SDM) in 24 patients with schizophrenia and 24 controls to explore how illness-related SDM were integrated into the self at both the cognitive (how participants are able to give a meanin...

Affordances, in the context of comics, connote to the general attributes of the medium such as temporality, spatiality, gestures, tone/handwriting and economy. Although comics evinces a dynamic relationship among these elements, it is possible to delineate functional and rhetorical role of these affordances on a conceptual and technical level. Taking these cues, the paper after briefly reviewin...

OBJECTIVE Older adults have elevated suicide rates, especially in the presence of a psychiatric disorder, yet not much is known about predictors for suicide within this high-risk group. The current study examines the characteristics associated with suicide among older adults who are admitted to a psychiatric hospital. METHOD All persons aged 60 and older living in Denmark who were hospitalize...