background: bipolar mood disorder (bmd) is a type of mood disorder which is associated with various disabilities. the family members of the patients with bmd experience many difficulties and pressures during the periods of treatment, rehabilitation and recovery and their quality of life (qol) is threatened. in the present study, we aimed to evaluate the effect of family-centered education on me...

OBJECTIVE Little is known about the neurobiology of bipolar II disorder. While bipolar I disorder is associated with abnormally elevated activity in response to reward in the ventral striatum, a key component of reward circuitry, no studies have compared reward circuitry function in bipolar I and bipolar II disorders. Furthermore, associations among reward circuitry activity, reward sensitivity...

BACKGROUND Screening scales for bipolar disorder including the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) and Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale (BSDS) have been plagued by high false positive rates confounded by presence of borderline personality disorder. This study examined the accuracy of these scales for detecting bipolar disorder among patients referred for eating disorders and explored the possibi...

The frequency of bipolar II disorder (BD II) is higher than the 0.5% community prevalence reported in DSM-IV-TR (1): rates are 11% in the community (2,3) and 30% to 60% in outpatients suffering from depression (4,5). Diagnostic criteria for “bipolar spectrum disorder” (6) include major depressive episode (MDE), no spontaneous mania or hypomania, family history of BD, and (or) antidepressantindu...

OBJECTIVES To examine the feasibility of collecting course of illness data from patients with bipolar I and II disorder, using weekly text-messaged mood ratings, and to examine the time trajectory of symptom ratings based on this method of self-report. METHODS A total of 62 patients with bipolar I (n = 47) or II (n = 15) disorder provided mood data in response to weekly cell phone text messag...

Some of the most challenging facets of bipolar disorder involve the management of its depressive symptoms. This article will focus on the pharmacologic management of this phase of bipolar disorder, describing the evidence base for controlled studies, emerging treatments, and expert recommendations. An unmet need exists for acute and maintenance treatments that target depressive symptoms in bipo...

BACKGROUND Bipolar Affective Disorder is frequently under-diagnosed and misdiagnosed, particularly as unipolar depression. This has serious implications on treatment and outcome of the condition. A community mental health team (CMHT) in Bedford, United Kingdom, has therefore reassessed patients to examine whether it is possible to increase the sensitivity of diagnosis of bipolar affective disor...