OBJECTIVE High comorbidity ratio of bipolar mood disorder (BMD) with Axis I and Axis II diagnoses is reported in the literature. The possible relationship between BMD and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in all age groups has been attracting more attention of researchers due to highly overlapping symptoms such as excessive talking, attention deficit, and increased motor activity....

J Clin Psychiatry 2015;76(2):e222–e223 (doi:10.4088/JCP.14com09639). © Copyright 2015 Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc. O 40 years ago, clinical observations generated proposals for a distinction among mood-disordered patients between those who experience mania in the course of their illness and those who experience only hypomania.1 Concerns that this distinction could not be made reliably de...

OBJECTIVES Emotion regulation deficits are a core feature of bipolar disorder. However, their potential neurobiological underpinnings and existence beyond bipolar I disorder remain unexplored. Our main goal was to investigate whether both individuals with bipolar I and bipolar II disorder show deficits in emotion regulation during an attention control task, and to explore the neurophysiological...

BACKGROUND Bipolar disorder is a common psychiatric mood disorder that is defined by recurrent episodes of abnormally elevated mood and depression. Progressive structural brain changes in individuals with bipolar disorder have been suggested to be associated with defects in the secretion of neurotrophic factors. We sought to assess how the regulated secretory pathway in the brain is affected in...

Objectives: Our objective was to perform a cross-sectional research to measure the prevalence of bipolar mood disorder (BMD) in Iranian children and adolescents and its comorbidity with psychiatric disorders. Also, the main purpose of this study was to characterize the main risk factors for BMD in children and adolescents. Method: This work was an analytical cross-sectional study. In a communi...

abstract: introduction: psychiatric disorder is a disease in which patients suffer from emotional problems that these are visible in all aspect of patient’s life. studies show that there is a major difference between the prevalence of this disease in different countries and also show that this disorder is increasing. the aim of this study is to find the possible relationship between psychiatric...

objective: the aim of this study was to identify prognosis factors associated with recurrence in patients ‎with bipolar disorder.‎‎ method: this retrospective cohort study was conducted in hamadan province, the west of iran. all ‎patients (n = 400) with bipolar disorder who were hospitalized for the second time or more ‎during april 2008 to september 2014 were included in this study. ordinal lo...

BACKGROUND Persistent impairments in neurocognitive function have been described in bipolar disorder. AIMS To compare the cognitive performance of patients with bipolar II disorder with that of patients with bipolar I disorder and a healthy control group. METHOD The study included 71 euthymic patients with bipolar disorder (38 bipolar I, 33 bipolar II), who were compared on clinical and neu...