Bipolar Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Bipolar, including details on bipolar disorder, symptoms, treatment, depression, medication.

Volume 1 (2004), Issue 4 (December)

1. Efficacy of olanzapine combined with valproate or lithium in the treatment of dysphoric mania.
   Br J Psychiatry, 185: 472-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. A review of mood disorders among juvenile offenders.
   Psychiatr Serv, 55(12): 1397-407. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Use of medical and behavioral health services by adolescents with bipolar disorder.
   Psychiatr Serv, 55(12): 1392-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Comparing the quality of antidepressant pharmacotherapy in the Department of Veterans Affairs and the private sector.
   Psychiatr Serv, 55(12): 1386-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Acute and continuation risperidone monotherapy in bipolar mania: a 3-week placebo-controlled trial followed by a 9-week double-blind trial of risperidone and haloperidol.
   Eur Neuropsychopharmacol, 15(1): 75-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. No association of clock gene T3111C polymorphism and affective disorders.
   Eur Neuropsychopharmacol, 15(1): 51-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Cognitive functioning in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: comparison of performance on the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status.
   Psychiatry Res, 129(1): 45-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Valproate decreases inositol biosynthesis.
   Biol Psychiatry, 56(11): 868-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Reduced glucocorticoid and estrogen receptor alpha messenger ribonucleic acid levels in the amygdala of patients with major mental illness.
   Biol Psychiatry, 56(11): 844-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Social exclusion and risk of emergency compulsory admission. A case-control study.
    Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 39(12): 1000-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Effect of chronic lithium treatment on glucocorticoid and 5-HT1A receptor messenger RNA in hippocampal and dorsal raphe nucleus regions of the rat brain.
    J Psychopharmacol, 18(4): 496-501. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Monotherapy treatment of bipolar disorder with levetiracetam.
    Epilepsy Behav, 5(6): 1017-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Increased cerebrospinal fluid levels of S100B protein in rat model of mania induced by ouabain.
    Life Sci, 76(7): 805-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Spanish-language measures of mania and depression.
    Psychol Assess, 16(4): 381-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. In vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the temporal lobe in Alzheimer's disease.
    Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 28(8): 1313-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Analysis of a variable number tandem repeat polymorphism in the huntingtin interacting protein-1 related gene for anticipation in bipolar affective disorder.
    Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 28(8): 1299-303. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Mood state at study entry as predictor of the polarity of relapse in bipolar disorder.
    Biol Psychiatry, 56(12): 957-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Reliability of psychiatric diagnosis in postmortem research.
    Biol Psychiatry, 57(1): 96-101. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Gait unsteadiness and fall risk in two affective disorders: a preliminary study.
    BMC Psychiatry, 4: 39. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Escitalopram/reboxetine combination in depressed patients with substance use disorder.
    Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 29(1): 165-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Topiramate and divalproex in combination with risperidone for acute mania: a randomized open-label study.
    Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 29(1): 115-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Antidepressant treatment-associated behavioural expression of hypomania: a case series.
    Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 28(7): 1201-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Effects of clozapine on sleep in bipolar and schizoaffective disorders.
    Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 28(7): 1065-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Treating patients with bipolar disorder and substance dependence: lessons learned.
    J Subst Abuse Treat, 27(4): 307-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Lithium and bipolar mood disorder: the inositol-depletion hypothesis revisited.
    Mol Psychiatry, 10(1): 117-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. The functional neuroanatomy of bipolar disorder: a review of neuroimaging findings.
    Mol Psychiatry, 10(1): 105-16. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Liver transplantation in a patient with undiagnosed bipolar disorder.
    Transplant Proc, 36(9): 2717-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Bimodal response sensitivity and bias in a test of sustained attention contrasting patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder to normal comparison group.
    Arch Clin Neuropsychol, 20(1): 17-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Are there attentional deficits in people putatively at risk for affective disorders?
    J Affect Disord, 84(1): 63-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Social functioning and personality of subjects at familial risk for affective disorder.
    J Affect Disord, 84(1): 33-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Treatment of acute mania--from clinical trials to recommendations for clinical practice.
    Hum Psychopharmacol, 20(1): 15-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Altered expression of mitochondria-related genes in postmortem brains of patients with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, as revealed by large-scale DNA microarray analysis.
    Hum Mol Genet, 14(2): 241-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Suicidal ideation and bipolar-II depression symptoms.
    Hum Psychopharmacol, 20(1): 27-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Does sustained-release lithium reduce impulsive gambling and affective instability versus placebo in pathological gamblers with bipolar spectrum disorders?
    Am J Psychiatry, 162(1): 137-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Pregnancy, delivery, and neonatal complications in a population cohort of women with schizophrenia and major affective disorders.
    Am J Psychiatry, 162(1): 79-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Randomized, placebo-controlled trial of mixed amphetamine salts for symptoms of comorbid ADHD in pediatric bipolar disorder after mood stabilization with divalproex sodium.
    Am J Psychiatry, 162(1): 58-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Sleep-related functioning in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder, patients with insomnia, and subjects without sleep problems.
    Am J Psychiatry, 162(1): 50-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Diminished suppression of the P50 auditory evoked potential in bipolar disorder subjects with a history of psychosis.
    Am J Psychiatry, 162(1): 43-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Localization of bipolar susceptibility locus by molecular genetic analysis of the chromosome 12q23-q24 region in two pedigrees with bipolar disorder and Darier's disease.
    Am J Psychiatry, 162(1): 35-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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