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 3 (2006), Issue 5 (May)

1. Long-term effectiveness and cost of a systematic care program for bipolar disorder.
   Arch Gen Psychiatry, 63(5): 500-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Child mania rating scale: development, reliability, and validity.
   J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 45(5): 550-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Racial differences in medication switching and concomitant prescriptions in the treatment of bipolar disorder.
   Psychiatr Serv, 57(5): 666-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Pharmacological Treatment Patterns at Study Entry for the First 500 STEP-BD Participants.
   Psychiatr Serv, 57(5): 660-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. An empirical analysis of cost outcomes of the Texas Medication Algorithm Project.
   Psychiatr Serv, 57(5): 648-59. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Access of behavioral health patients to prescribing professionals.
   Gen Hosp Psychiatry, 28(3): 249-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Seasonal changes in clinical status in bipolar disorder: a prospective study in 1000 STEP-BD patients.
   Acta Psychiatr Scand, 113(6): 510-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Ifosfamide neurotoxicity: an atypical presentation with psychiatric manifestations.
   Pediatr Blood Cancer, 47(1): 100-2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Oligoribonuclease is a common downstream target of lithium-induced pAp accumulation in Escherichia coli and human cells.
   Nucleic Acids Res, 34(8): 2364-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. The Wnt-dependent signaling pathways as target in oncology drug discovery.
    Invest New Drugs, 24(4): 263-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Variance calculations for identity-by-descent estimation.
    Am J Hum Genet, 78(6): 914-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Anticonvulsants in bipolar disorder.
    Aust N Z J Psychiatry, 40(5): 386-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. MRI study of thalamus volumes in juvenile patients with bipolar disorder.
    Depress Anxiety. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Performance of a Weight-related Measure of Quality of Life in a Psychiatric Sample.
    Qual Life Res, 15(4): 587-96. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Full reversal of Alzheimer's disease-like phenotype in a mouse model with conditional overexpression of glycogen synthase kinase-3.
    J Neurosci, 26(19): 5083-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. C677T and A1298C methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene polymorphisms in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression: a meta-analysis of genetic association studies.
    Psychiatr Genet, 16(3): 105-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Factors associated with psychiatric hospitalization of individuals diagnosed with dementia and comorbid bipolar disorder.
    J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol, 19(2): 72-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Post-dexamethasone arginine vasopressin levels in patients with severe mood disorders.
    J Psychiatr Res, 40(4): 353-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder in old age: literature review and findings in manic patients.
    J Affect Disord, 92(1): 125-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Association of 677C>T polymorphism of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
    Neurosci Lett, 400(3): 267-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Gene expression and association analysis of LIM (PDLIM5) in major depression.
    Neurosci Lett, 400(3): 203-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Electroconvulsive therapy: an effective therapy of medication-resistant bipolar disorder.
    Bipolar Disord, 8(3): 304-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Maintenance electroconvulsive therapy for recurrent refractory mania.
    Bipolar Disord, 8(3): 301-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Duplication 8q22.1-q24.1 associated with bipolar disorder and speech delay.
    Bipolar Disord, 8(3): 294-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Effects of lamotrigine in patients with bipolar disorder and alcohol dependence.
    Bipolar Disord, 8(3): 289-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Anterior cingulate subregion volumes and executive function in bipolar disorder.
    Bipolar Disord, 8(3): 281-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. The prospective impact of sleep duration on depression and mania.
    Bipolar Disord, 8(3): 271-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Serum calcium-independent phospholipase A2 activity in bipolar affective disorder.
    Bipolar Disord, 8(3): 265-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Decrease in creatine kinase messenger RNA expression in the hippocampus and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in bipolar disorder.
    Bipolar Disord, 8(3): 255-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Preliminary evidence of differential relations between prefrontal cortex metabolism and sustained attention in depressed adults with bipolar disorder and healthy controls.
    Bipolar Disord, 8(3): 248-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Treatment adherence with antipsychotic medications in bipolar disorder.
    Bipolar Disord, 8(3): 232-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Prophylactic treatment of bipolar disorder in pregnancy and breastfeeding: focus on emerging mood stabilizers.
    Bipolar Disord, 8(3): 207-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Solar cycles and their relationship to human disease and adaptability.
    Med Hypotheses. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Early predictors of substantial weight gain in bipolar patients treated with olanzapine.
    J Clin Psychopharmacol, 26(3): 316-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Altered gene expression in mice treated with the mood stabilizer sodium valproate.
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol, 9(3): 267-76. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Secular trends in first hospitalizations for major mood disorders with comorbid substance use.
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol, 9(3): 319-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Clinical variables related to antidepressant-induced mania in bipolar disorder.
    J Affect Disord, 92(2): 227-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Influence of the catechol-O-methyltransferase Val108/158Met polymorphism on the plasma concentration of catecholamine metabolites and on clinical features in type I bipolar disorder--a preliminary report.
    J Affect Disord, 92(2): 277-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Bipolar disorder as an emerging pathology in the scientific literature: a bibliometric approach.
    J Affect Disord, 92(2): 161-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Improving the diagnosis of bipolar disorder: predictive value of screening tests.
    J Affect Disord, 92(2): 141-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Reduced educational attainment in bipolar disorder.
    J Affect Disord, 92(2): 309-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. SSRIs as mood stabilizers for Bipolar II Disorder? A proof of concept study.
    J Affect Disord, 92(2): 205-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Tbx1 haploinsufficiency is linked to behavioral disorders in mice and humans: implications for 22q11 deletion syndrome.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 103(20): 7729-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Targeting glycogen synthase kinase-3 in insulin signalling.
    Expert Opin Ther Targets, 10(3): 429-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. Targeting glycogen synthase kinase-3 as an approach to develop novel mood-stabilising medications.
    Expert Opin Ther Targets, 10(3): 377-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Open-label olanzapine treatment in bipolar I disorder: clinical and work functional outcomes.
    Curr Med Res Opin, 22(5): 961-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Neuroactive steroids are altered in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: relevance to pathophysiology and therapeutics.
    Neuropsychopharmacology, 31(6): 1249-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Neurochemical effects of olanzapine in first-hospitalization manic adolescents: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.
    Neuropsychopharmacology, 31(6): 1264-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor NR2B subunit gene GRIN2B in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Polymorphisms and mRNA levels.
    Schizophr Res, 84(2): 214-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Reduction of dopamine-related transcription factors Nurr1 and NGFI-B in the prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.
    Schizophr Res, 84(1): 36-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. Altered glucocorticoid receptor signaling cascade in lymphocytes of bipolar disorder patients.
    Psychoneuroendocrinology, 31(6): 748-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Role of Parenting and Maltreatment Histories in Unipolar and Bipolar Mood Disorders: Mediation by Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression.
    Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Risperidone attenuates brain damage after focal cerebral ischemia in vivo.
    Brain Res Bull, 69(6): 656-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Genetics of affective (mood) disorders.
    Eur J Hum Genet, 14(6): 660-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Mice with neuron-specific accumulation of mitochondrial DNA mutations show mood disorder-like phenotypes.
    Mol Psychiatry, 11(6): 577-93, 523. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Results of a SNP genome screen in a large Costa Rican pedigree segregating for severe bipolar disorder.
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet, 141(4): 367-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. A review of postpartum psychosis.
    J Womens Health (Larchmt), 15(4): 352-68. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. The human reelin gene: transcription factors (+), repressors (-) and the methylation switch (+/-) in schizophrenia.
    Pharmacol Ther, 111(1): 272-86. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. Genome-wide expression analysis detects eight genes with robust alterations specific to bipolar I disorder: relevance to neuronal network perturbation.
    Hum Mol Genet, 15(12): 1949-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
60. The prevalence and impact of migraine headache in bipolar disorder: results from the Canadian Community Health Survey.
    Headache, 46(6): 973-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
61. Ziprasidone in bipolar disorder.
    Expert Opin Pharmacother, 7(9): 1221-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
62. Proteomic analysis of the anterior cingulate cortex in the major psychiatric disorders: Evidence for disease-associated changes.
    Proteomics, 6(11): 3414-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
63. Outcome of patients with unipolar, bipolar and psychotic disorders admitted to a specialist child and adolescent mental health service.
    Australas Psychiatry, 14(2): 198-201. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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