OBJECTIVE This review examines whether borderline personality disorder (BPD) should be considered part of the bipolar spectrum. METHODS A literature review examined studies of co-occurrence, phenomenology, family prevalence, medication response, longitudinal course, and etiology. RESULTS Borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder co-occur, but their relationship is not consistent ...

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorders and ADHD might be overrepresented in Klinefelter syndrome, but previous investigations have yielded inconclusive results. METHODS We compared a national sample of 860 Klinefelter patients in Sweden with 86 000 matched population controls. To assess the risks of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder and A...

In recent years, a call for increased research on bipolar disorder has been answered with methodologically diverse studies exploring goal striving, life events, cognitive style, decision-making, and neurobiological abnormalities in bipolar disorder. In order to further this spurt of research and to systematize our understanding of bipolar disorder, an integrative perspective is warranted. The b...

Bipolar disorder is a chronic, severe, recurrent mood disorder. Traditional estimates of the prevalence of the disorder may underestimate the actual total disease burden. The condition can occur across a wide spectrum of ages, but the most common age of onset appears to be between the ages of 15 and 19. Bipolar disorder is often underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed, with profound negative clinical an...

The authors examined concurrent and prospective associations of behavioral approach system (BAS)-relevant and non-BAS-relevant cognitive styles with bipolar spectrum disorders. Controlling for depressive and hypomanic/manic symptoms, 195 individuals with bipolar spectrum disorders scored higher than 194 demographically similar normal controls on BAS sensitivity and BAS-relevant cognitive dimens...

We assess the number of patients who we have on the Database of a Community Mental Health Team in the UK who have Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder. We report how many of these have been seen as having both disorders. Hence we discuss the issue as to whether Borderline Personality disorder is to be placed within the bipolar spectrum. We note the difficulties regarding the use...

BACKGROUND Bipolar psychopathology has traditionally been defined by categorical diagnoses. However, these disorders may simply reflect the extremes of a broader spectrum of clinical and subclinical bipolar psychopathology. METHOD The present study examined the validity of the Hypomanic Personality Scale (HPS) as a measure of bipolar spectrum psychopathology in 305 young adults using experien...

A comparison of clinical characteristics in bipolar I disorder and antidepressantassociated mania/hypomania Objective: Although hypomania/mania during antidepressant treatment is not rare, it is often neglected by clinicians. As a result of the recent developments in this topic, bipolarity is now accepted as a wide spectrum. Forty percent of the patients with bipolar disorder have been misdiagn...

INTRODUCTION Bipolar spectrum disorder is a chronic, episodic illness, associated with significant personal, social and economic burden. It is estimated to affect ∼2.4% of the population worldwide and is commonly associated with psychological and/or physiological comorbidities. Osteoporosis is one such comorbidity, a disease of bone that is asymptomatic until a fracture occurs. This systematic ...