Treatment of Bipolar Disorder Issues and controversies

• Abnormalities in serum chemokines levels in euthymic patients with Bipolar Disorder
• Actigraph data as a biomarker of affective instability: imparseable but important
• Allostatic load in Bipolar Disorder
• Alterations in levels of cytokines and adipokines over 2-year follow-up in patients with bipolar disorder
• Bipolar disorder and body composition: a pilot study using whole body dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans
• Change in the rate of metabolic syndrome in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in the course of treatment
• Cognitive behavior therapy versus treatment as usual for bipolar youths: a quantitative and qualitative effectiveness trial
• Cognitive profile of euthymic patients with bipolar disorder on monotherapy with novel antipsychotics or mood stablizers
• Controlled study of group cognitive behavioral therapy for bipolar disorder
• Cytokine levels in euthymic bipolar patients
• Differences in the antidepressant effect of right and left repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation assessed item by item with Hamilton depression rating scale
• Differential effects of adjunctive aripiprazole on the relapse prevention in patients with bipolar disorders
• Does sleep disturbance influence functioning in euthymic bipolar patients
• Dysregulation of glutamate neurotransmission as a potential therapeutic target in bipolar disorder and comorbid alcohol dependence: a review of current evidence
• Effects of atypical antipsychotics on neurocognition in euthymic bipolar patients
• Effects of fasting over bipolar patients during the month of Ramadan
• Efficacy and safety of varenicline for smoking cessation in bipolar depressed patients: an open-label 12-week feasibility trial
• Impact of subdepressive simptoms in quality of life of bipolar patients from mood disorder clinic of Instituto Psiquiatrico "Dr. José Horwitz B", Santiago, Chile
• Investigation of Wnt signaling cascade in the peripheral blood mononuclear cell of bipolar patients
• Late diagnosed Asperger's syndrome with bipolar disorder
• Mental status of caregiven and treatment adherence: comparison of caregivens of bipolar and schizophrenic patients
• Metabolic syndrome prevalence between different temperament profiles in bipolar I disorder
• Mindfulness in bipolar disorder
• Neuroprotective role of mood stabilizers: The rational behind maintenance treatment
• Neurotrophin-3 is increased in patients with bipolar disorder on and off medication during manic and depressive episodes
• Patients with bipolar disorder can improve in some cognitive domains under valproate monotherapy
• Perception of disease and pathways to care in bipolar disorder
• Pregnant women and men and bipolar disorder; becoming manic after delivery
• Preliminary data on effect of ECT in uni- and bipolar depression as measured by Antonovsky sense of coherence test
• Prevalence of general medical comorbidity in Brazilian outpatients with bipolar disorder
• Psychoeducation in bipolar disorder. tutors role
• Quality of life improvement with a psychoeducative program for bipolar disorders
• Reaction time-an effective tool in measurement of neurocognitive dysfunction in bipolar affective disorder
• Risk factors as mediators or moderators in predicting relapse to any type of mood episode in a bipolar maintenance study
• Role of the psychiatrist in the education of the bipolar community, ISBD Mexico bipolar connection program
• Seasonality of metabolic syndrome in bipolar I disorder
• Sequential suicidal attempts of a multiple comorbidity bipolar patient: a case report
• Setting the balance: mitochondria and energy metabolism in Bipolar Disorder
• Social cognition and Val66Met polymorphism in bipolar disease type I
• Social cognition, empathy, and social functioning in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
• The association between concurrent psychotropic medications and self-reported adherence with taking a mood stabilizer
• The BREATH Study: The Brazilian Experimental Algorithms for the Treatment of bipolar disorders in the public Health system
• The effect of axis I psychiatric comorbidity on treatment response on outpatients with bipolar disorders: two year follow-up study in the naturalistic setting
• The impact of depressive or anxious caregiver on treatment adherence in bipolar patients
• The International Society for Bipolar Disorder (ISBD) work group on mixed states and treatment response
• The International Society of Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) task force on the nomenclature of course and outcome in bipolar disorders
• The rate and associated factors of dropout of outpatients treatment for bipolar disorders
• The relationship between BMI and normalized brain volumes in first-episode mania patients and age- and gender-matched healthy subjects: prospective 12-month data from the Systematic Treatment Optimization Program for Early Mania (STOP-EM)
• The role of benzodiazepines in treatment of acute mania in turkey
• The separation of Bipolar I depression and major depression using fMRI
• Tobacco smoking and bipolar disorder: evidence for a worsened course of illness
• Treatment adherence in first episode mania
• Treatment considerations for bipolar disorder with comorbid nicotine dependence
• Treatment of bipolar disorder II in postpartum
• Treatment of manic patients during hospitalization – a retrospective chart review in 2004-2008: What has changed?
• Validity of the "national institutes of mental health life chart - self version" (NIHM-SLCM)
• Vaproate associated reproductive and sexual dysfunctions: are epileptic men at greater risk than bipolar men?

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