• A comparison between the bipolar disorders with comorbidity and without comorbidity
• A comparison between the bipolar disorders with psychotic symptoms and without psychotic symptoms
• A comparison of the phenomenology and illness course of major depressive episodes in major depressive disorder and bipolar I and bipolar II disorders
• A new paradigm of neurofunctional and neurocognitive correlation in bipolar disorder
• A possible association between creativity and schizotypy in bipolar illness
• Abnormal neural oscillation to speech sounds in bipolar disorder
• Abnormal semantic processing in bipolar manic patients: preliminary study
• Abnormal temperament in patients with morbid obesity seeking surgical treatment
• Abnormalities in serum chemokines levels in euthymic patients with Bipolar Disorder
• Actigraph data as a biomarker of affective instability: imparseable but important
• Activation of signal pathways related to protein translation initiation in the brain of ouabain rat model of mania
• Addressing the need for a disorder-specific quality of life scale for bipolar disorder: psychometric properties of the quality of life in bipolar disorder (QoL.BD)
• Adjudicating cognitive endophenotypes for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
• Adjunctive lamotrigine therapy for bipolar II depression
• Affects of asenapine on depressive symptoms in patients with bipolar I disorder
• Alterations in levels of cytokines and adipokines over 2-year follow-up in patients with bipolar disorder
• Altered white matter connectivity and water diffusivity in bipolar I and II disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging study
• An investigation of the impact of substance use on the outcomes of first episode mania
• An investigation of the relationship between childhood trauma and the 12-month outcome of first episode mania in adolescents and young adults
• Antipsychotics in the treatment of hospitalized manic patients in Turkey: retrospective naturalistic one year data
• Asenapine in bipolar disorder: an overview of clinical trials in the olympia program
• Association between emotional and affective temperament and professions
• Associations between diet quality and depressed mood in adolescents: results from the healthy neighbourhoods study
• Attachment styles and clinical features of bipolar disorder
• Attention deficit and psychopathology in children victims of trauma
• Attention deficit hyperactivity symptoms predicted mixed symptoms of bipolar disorder in adolescents
• BDNF levels in the rat prefrontal cortex, amygdala and hippocampal CA3 region in an animal model of mania
• Biomarkers of oxidative stress in schizophrenic and bipolar patients during manic episode
• Bipolar disorder and body composition: a pilot study using whole body dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans
• Bipolar disorder and physical activity: results from a national survey of Canadians
• Bipolar disorder presented with postnatal depression and its associated factors among a group of women attending the postnatal clinic, University Malaya Medical Centre- a cross sectional study
• Bipolar disorder: prevalence and comorbidity among emergency department patients in Latin-american countries
• Bipolarity in eating disorder: comparison of hcl-32 and bipolarity index
• Brain dysfunction in schizomanic patients versus healthy controls: a fMRI study
• Brazilian Portuguese validation of Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ)
• Brazilian psychiatric barin bank: a new contribution tool to network studie
• Brazilian validation of the HCL-32-R1 (the Hypomania Checklist, first revision)
• Caregiver depression and youth report of depression and mania symptoms predict family functioning
• Change in the rate of metabolic syndrome in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in the course of treatment
• Clinical correlates of eating disorders comorbidity in women with bipolar disorder type 1
• Clinical features of bipolar disorder in a Chilean specialist outpatient clinic
• Clinical phenotype and comorbidity of major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder among college students: a web-based community survey
• Clock drawing test as a screening test for dementia in bipolar patients
• Co-morbidity and psychiatric family history in bipolar disorder (BD) from a Chilean specialist outpatient clinic
• Cognitive assessment in a crack users population with and without mood disorders: a pilot study
• Cognitive behavior therapy versus treatment as usual for bipolar youths: a quantitative and qualitative effectiveness trial
• Cognitive function in euthymic bipolar disorder type I subjects
• Combined emotional and affective temperament scale: concurrent validity against temperament and character inventory-revised
• Comparative study of personality traits in patients with bipolar I and II disorder from the five-factor model perspective
• Comparison between clinical characteristics of suicide attempters and non-attempters in a sample of bipolar disorder patients with mania as first episode polarity
• Comparison of creatine kinase levels in depressed, manic and euthymic patients with bipolar disorder
• Comparison of cytokine levels in depressed, manic and euthymic patients with bipolar disorder
• Complement system in bipolar disorders and schizophrenia: C3 and C4
• Consensus guidelines for carers of people with bipolar disorder
• Controlled study of group cognitive behavioral therapy for bipolar disorder
• Correlation between serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor and neurotrophin-3 levels in bipolar disorder
• Cyclic alternating pattern during sleep in patients with bipolar diosrders
• Cytokine levels in euthymic bipolar patients
• Decreased cellular viability in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cell line induced by incubation with serum from manic bipolar patients
• Deficits in working memory and executive functions but not in decision making in euthymic bipolar patients
• Differences in clinical features and comorbidy between bipolar I and bipolar II disorders
• Differences in the antidepressant effect of right and left repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation assessed item by item with Hamilton depression rating scale
• Differences of manic prodrome and coping strategy between psychotic and nonpsychotic bipolar patients
• Differential effects of adjunctive aripiprazole on the relapse prevention in patients with bipolar disorders
• Difficult management of an early onset case of bipolar disorder
• Does sleep disturbance influence functioning in euthymic bipolar patients
• Early functional recovery predicts engagement in psychological therapy for first episode bipolar disorder
• Early life stress does not alter global DNA methylation in the striatum of an animal model of mania
• Effect of acute administration of fenproporex on mitochondrial respiratory chain in the brain of adult rats
• Effect of mood stabilizers on behavioral and manic-like symptoms secondary to herpes simplex encephalitis: a case report
• Effectiveness of quetiapine versus bupropion as adjunctive treatment for bipolar depression
• Effects of atypical antipsychotics on neurocognition in euthymic bipolar patients
• Effects of fasting over bipolar patients during the month of Ramadan
• Effects of mood stabilizers on hippocampus and amygdala BDNF levels in an animal model of mania induced by ouabain
• Effects of sodium butyrate and tamoxifen on creatine kinase activity in an animal model of mania
• Efficacy and safety of varenicline for smoking cessation in bipolar depressed patients: an open-label 12-week feasibility trial
• Electroconvulsive therapy in the treatment of hospitalized manic patients in turkey: retrospective naturalistic one year data
• Emotional responsiveness and resilience in bipolar depression
• Factors affecting weight in subjects with an episode of mania in the first month of treatment
• Family functioning mediate suicide attempts and family quality of life in pediatric bipolar disorder
• Functional neuroimaging and cognitive control process in depressed bipolar youth
• Higher scores on motor impulsivity and lower scores on cooperativeness are associated with history of suicide attempts in Brazilian outpatients with bipolar disorder
• Hypomanic symptoms in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
• Identifying the determinants and early manifestations of bipolar disorder: establishing a “blue print” for early intervention programs
• Illness perception of nonattendance patients with bipolar disorder
• Impact of impaired recognition of facial emotions on psychosocial functioning in bipolar patients
• Impact of subdepressive simptoms in quality of life of bipolar patients from mood disorder clinic of Instituto Psiquiatrico "Dr. José Horwitz B", Santiago, Chile
• Increased plasma levels of chemokines in bipolar disorder patients in mania
• Increased plasma levels of soluble TNF-alpha receptors in bipolar disorder patients
• Increased risk of hypomanic symptoms during puerperium: a population survey
• Increased soluble tumor necrosis factor-alpha receptors in patients with major depressive disorder
• Insight and cognitive functions in subjects with bipolarity I
• Interfering with the activating effect of calbindin D28k on inositol monophosphatase activity
• Intimate and social relationships in the adult children of bipolar mothers – a controlled pilot study: I. Attachment, separation anxiety and social support
• Investigation of Wnt signaling cascade in the peripheral blood mononuclear cell of bipolar patients
• Key issues in bipolar disorder: a global survey of patients, carers, and health care professionals
• Late diagnosed Asperger's syndrome with bipolar disorder
• Lifetime prevalence and correlates of suicidal ideation, plan, and single and multiple attempts in a nationwide sample of Korea
• Long distance gamma (28-48 Hz) coherence decreases under cognitive load in drug free euthymic patients with bipolar disorder
• Long-term efficacy of quetiapine in combination with lithium or divalproex on mixed symptoms in bipolar I disorder
• Maintenance treatment with quetiapine added to either lithium or divalproex in bipolar I disorder
• Mania in a man treated with modafinil
• Mass spectrometry of synaptosome after treatment with m-amphetamine as a potential means to investigate the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder
• Mental status of caregiven and treatment adherence: comparison of caregivens of bipolar and schizophrenic patients
• Meta-analysis of epidemiological studies of pediatric bipolar disorder
• Metabolic syndrome and associated risk factors in maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder with ziprasidone adjunctive therapy
• Metabolic syndrome prevalence between different temperament profiles in bipolar I disorder
• Mindfulness in bipolar disorder
• Mixed depression in bipolar disorder: prevalence rate and clinical correlates during naturalistic follow up
• MR study of gender and medication effects on fronto-limbic structures of bipolar patients
• Neurocognitive endophenotypes found in a genetically isolated population
• Neuropsychological and clinical differences in bipolar adolescents with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• Neuropsychological assessment of euthymic bipolar patients in a Chilean outpatient clinic
• Neurotrophin-3 is increased in patients with bipolar disorder on and off medication during manic and depressive episodes
• Orbitofrontal dysfunction during reward and punishment anticipation in mania
• Oxidative parameters in brain of wistar rats in an animal model of mania induced by ouabain
• Patients with bipolar disorder can improve in some cognitive domains under valproate monotherapy
• Perception of disease and pathways to care in bipolar disorder
• Personality disorder comorbidity among outpatients with bipolar disorder: Impact on prognosis and quality of life
• Portability of the 10-item parent-report general behavior inventory from an academic medical center to a community mental health center
• Postural assessment in major depressive disorder: comparisons between recurrent and non-recurrent depression
• 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
• Premenstrual symptoms and seasonality in women patients with bipolar disorder
• Prevalence and disability of DSM-IV bipolar disorder in Korean general population survey
• Prevalence of depression, stress and anxiety among adolescents in India: a dimensional and categorical based study
• Prevalence of general medical comorbidity in Brazilian outpatients with bipolar disorder
• Problematic internet use and bipolar disorder symptoms in male adolescents
• Psychiatric hospitalizations due to bipolar disorder, major depression disorder and schizophrenia in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Psychoeducation in bipolar disorder. tutors role
• Psychopathologic and neurocognitive features of bipolar offspring in a genetically isolated population
• Psychotic symptoms and brain volumes in first episode patients with bipolar disorder: is there a connection? data from the Systematic Treatment Optimization Program for Early Mania (STOP-EM)
• Quality life in patients with bipolar depression treated with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation vs antidepressive medication
• Quality of life improvement with a psychoeducative program for bipolar disorders
• Quantitative mapping of deleted mitochondrial DNA in transgenic mice exhibiting bipolar disorder-like phenotypes
• Reaction time-an effective tool in measurement of neurocognitive dysfunction in bipolar affective disorder
• Rescuing childhood: understanding bipolar disorders in children and adolescents
• Resource utilization and cost estimation in first manic episode in bipolar disorders: follow-up from the first episode to the next relapse
• Results of a double-blind, randomized, dose-titration, placebo controlled multicenter trial (SCO/BIA-2093-203 study) on safety and efficacy of eslicarbazepine acetate (BIA 2-093) for acute manic episodes associated with biopolar I disorder
• Risk factors as mediators or moderators in predicting relapse to any type of mood episode in a bipolar maintenance study
• Risk taking behavior in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder and their first-degree relatives
• Seasonality of metabolic syndrome in bipolar I disorder
• Self-management strategies used by high functioning individuals with bipolar disorder: from research to clinical practice
• Sequential suicidal attempts of a multiple comorbidity bipolar patient: a case report
• Serum BDNF and cytokines levels in anti-depressant free late-life depression patients: effects of age of depression onset and clinical characteristics
• Serum levels of proinflammatory and anti-inflamatory cytokines in acute mania and schizophrenia: differences in pro and anti-inflamatory balance
• Serum thiobarbituric acid reactive substances in bipolar disorder during mania and schizophrenia: a biomarker with possible diagnostic implications
• Significant decrease of EEG alpha activity and alpha response in bipolar patients
• Social cognition and Val66Met polymorphism in bipolar disease type I
• Social cognition, empathy, and social functioning in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
• Social cognitive endophenotypes in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia?
• Stigma and functioning in patients with bipolar disorders
• Substance abuse or dependence in subjects with bipolar disorder: influence in clinical course
• 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 Collaborative Research Team to study psychosocial issues in Bipolar Disorder (CREST.BD)
• The effect of antidepressant treatment on quality of life in patients with major depressive disorder
• 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 efficacy of quetiapine monotherapy in bipolar II depression: combined data from the BOLDER and EMBOLDEN studies
• The EPPIC 800 study: the longer-term clinical and functional outcome of 93 individuals with first episode bipolar disorder
• The impact of depressive or anxious caregiver on treatment adherence in bipolar patients
• The influence of gender on the course of bipolar I disorder: 1 year follow-up study using a mood chart
• The influence of temperament on subjective sleep patterns
• The International Society for Bipolar Disorder (ISBD) work group on mixed states and treatment response
• The Mc-Lean Harvard first episode project: two-year functional recovery in 152 bipolar-I disorder patients
• The prevalence and clinical features of body dysmorphic disorder in a Korean nursing college student population
• The rate and associated factors of dropout of outpatients treatment for bipolar disorders
• The relationship attachment style, personality and temperament in patient with bipolar disorder and their children: a controlled study
• 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 use of mood stabilizers in acute manic patients in Turkey
• The Val66Met polymorphism and bipolar disorder in a Mexican sample
• TNFS10 is differentially expressed in bipolar disorder: results from data mining of 12 microarray studies from the Stanley Foundation
• 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 manic patients during hospitalization – a retrospective chart review in 2004-2008: What has changed?
• Treatment outcomes based on disease severity for subjects with bipolar I disorder treated with ziprasidone plus a mood stabilizer
• Twelve-month prevalence and impact of DSM-IV bipolar disorder in an Australian general population survey
• Two cases of severe depressive mixed states induced with pegylated interferon-alpha plus ribavirin therapy for hepatitis C effectively treated with mood stabilizers
• Under recognition of bipolar disorder among Hispanics attending a rural alcohol and drug treatment program in Southern California
• Validation and clinical utility study of the MDQ in a Chilean outpatient sample
• Validation of the Combined Emotional and Affective Temperament Scale (CEATS) in a large sample with high risk for mood disorders
• Validity of the "national institutes of mental health life chart - self version" (NIHM-SLCM)
• Valnoctamide as a valproate substitute with low teratogenic potential in mania: double-blind controlled clinical trial
• Vaproate associated reproductive and sexual dysfunctions: are epileptic men at greater risk than bipolar men?
• Voxelwise evaluation of white matter volumes in first-episode psychotic bipolar I disorder, unipolar depression and schizophrenia
• Which depressive symptoms interfere most with work functioning in patients with bipolar disorder?

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