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 4 (2007), Issue 12 (December)

1. Regulatory factor X4 variant 3: A transcription factor involved in brain development and disease.
   J Neurosci Res, 85(16): 3515-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Evidence of disrupted prepulse inhibition in unaffected siblings of bipolar disorder patients.
   Biol Psychiatry, 62(12): 1418-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. A relationship between neurocognitive impairment and functional impairment in bipolar disorder: a pilot study.
   Psychiatry Res, 157(1): 289-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Complementary and alternative medicine therapies to promote healthy moods.
   Pediatr Clin North Am, 54(6): 901-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Assessing Negative Consequences in Patients with Substance Use and Bipolar Disorders: Psychometric Properties of the Short Inventory of Problems (SIP).
   Am J Addict, 16(6): 503-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Risk of malignancy in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: nested case-control study.
   Arch Gen Psychiatry, 64(12): 1368-76. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Physiology of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and schizoaffective disorder.
   Am J Psychiatry, 164(12): 1900-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Risk of recurrence in women with bipolar disorder during pregnancy: prospective study of mood stabilizer discontinuation.
   Am J Psychiatry, 164(12): 1817-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Hypothesis: Grandiosity and Guilt Cause Paranoia; Paranoid Schizophrenia is a Psychotic Mood Disorder; a Review.
   Schizophr Bull. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Cost of scaling up mental healthcare in low- and middle-income countries.
    Br J Psychiatry, 191: 528-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Lithium in mood disorders: increasing evidence base, declining use?
    Br J Psychiatry, 191: 474-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Computational and experimental identification of novel human imprinted genes.
    Genome Res, 17(12): 1723-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Changes in brain activation during working memory and facial recognition tasks in patients with bipolar disorder with Lamotrigine monotherapy.
    Eur Neuropsychopharmacol, 18(1): 48-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. In vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in patients with mood disorders: A technically oriented review.
    J Magn Reson Imaging, 26(6): 1378-89. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Antimanic therapies target brain arachidonic acid signaling: Lessons learned about the regulation of brain fatty acid metabolism.
    Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids, 77(5): 239-46. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor and its receptor tropomyosin-related kinase B in the mechanism of action of antidepressant therapies.
    Pharmacol Ther, 117(1): 30-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Bilateral hippocampal volume increase in patients with bipolar disorder and short-term lithium treatment.
    Neuropsychopharmacology, 33(2): 361-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Chronic obstructive lung diseases and prevalence of mood, anxiety, and substance-use disorders in a large population sample.
    Psychosomatics, 48(6): 496-501. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Personal and Societal Construction of Illness Among Individuals With Rapid-Cycling Bipolar Disorder: A Life-Trajectory Perspective.
    Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Differences in prevalence and patterns of substance use in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
    Psychol Med. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Measuring cognitive insight in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a comparative study.
    BMC Psychiatry, 7(1): 71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Relationship of general medical burden, duration of illness and age in patients with bipolar I disorder.
    J Psychiatr Res. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Light therapy for bipolar disorder: a case series in women.
    Bipolar Disord, 9(8): 918-27. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Complicated grief and impaired sleep in patients with bipolar disorder.
    Bipolar Disord, 9(8): 913-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Psychotic features in bipolar and unipolar depression.
    Bipolar Disord, 9(8): 901-906. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Prevalence of the Child Behavior Checklist-pediatric bipolar disorder phenotype in a German general population sample.
    Bipolar Disord, 9(8): 895-900. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. A prospective open-label treatment trial of ziprasidone monotherapy in children and adolescents with bipolar disorder.
    Bipolar Disord, 9(8): 888-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. A near-infrared spectroscopy study of prefrontal cortex activation during a verbal fluency task and carbon dioxide inhalation in individuals with bipolar disorder.
    Bipolar Disord, 9(8): 876-883. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Cognitive impairment in later life in patients with early-onset bipolar disorder.
    Bipolar Disord, 9(8): 868-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Bipolar disorder not otherwise specified in relation to the bipolar spectrum.
    Bipolar Disord, 9(8): 860-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Antidepressant-associated switches from depression to mania in severe bipolar disorder.
    Bipolar Disord, 9(8): 851-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. The early manifestations of bipolar disorder: a longitudinal prospective study of the offspring of bipolar parents.
    Bipolar Disord, 9(8): 828-38. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Outcome following a first manic episode: cross-national US and Taiwan comparison.
    Bipolar Disord, 9(8): 820-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Brain systems underlying response flexibility in healthy and bipolar adolescents: an event-related fMRI study.
    Bipolar Disord, 9(8): 810-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. White matter abnormalities in children with and at risk for bipolar disorder.
    Bipolar Disord, 9(8): 799-809. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. GPR50 is not associated with childhood-onset mood disorders in a large sample of Hungarian families.
    Psychiatr Genet, 17(6): 347-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Further evidence for association of GRK3 to bipolar disorder suggests a second disease mutation.
    Psychiatr Genet, 17(6): 315-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Diagnostic and sex effects on limbic volumes in early-onset bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
    Schizophr Bull, 34(1): 37-46. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Impact of anxiety disorder comorbidity on quality of life in euthymic bipolar disorder patients: differences between bipolar I and II subtypes.
    J Affect Disord, 105(1): 297-303. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Diagnosis and classification of pediatric bipolar disorder.
    J Affect Disord, 105(1): 205-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Cognitive and motor features in elderly people with bipolar disorder.
    J Affect Disord, 105(1): 291-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Anterior cingulate volume in pediatric bipolar disorder and autism.
    J Affect Disord, 105(1): 93-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Self-injurious behavior and attempted suicide in purging bulimia nervosa: Associations with psychiatric comorbidity.
    J Affect Disord, 105(1): 285-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Effectiveness of quetiapine in rapid cycling bipolar disorder: A preliminary study.
    J Affect Disord, 105(1): 305-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. Six-month prospective life charting of mood symptoms with lamotrigine monotherapy versus placebo in rapid cycling bipolar disorder.
    Biol Psychiatry, 63(1): 125-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Neuropsychological performance predicts clinical recovery in bipolar patients.
    J Affect Disord, 105(1): 253-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. The DISC locus in psychiatric illness.
    Mol Psychiatry, 13(1): 36-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Allelic association of G72/G30 with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: A comprehensive meta-analysis.
    Schizophr Res, 98(1): 89-97. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Executive deficits in psychotic and bipolar disorders - Implications for our understanding of schizoaffective disorder.
    Eur Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Hypomanic, cyclothymic and hostile personality traits in bipolar spectrum illness: A family-based study.
    J Psychiatr Res. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. Brain-specific tryptophan hydroxylase 2 (TPH2): a functional Pro206Ser substitution and variation in the 5'-region are associated with bipolar affective disorder.
    Hum Mol Genet, 17(1): 87-97. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Gaps and limitations of psychological interventions for bipolar disorders.
    Psychother Psychosom, 77(1): 4-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Effect of the new antiepileptic drug retigabine in a rodent model of mania.
    Epilepsy Behav, 12(1): 49-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Leopold Auenbrugger: camphor-induced epilepsy - remedy for manic psychosis.
    Eur Neurol, 59(1): 105-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Long-term weekly continuation electroconvulsive therapy: a case series.
    J ECT, 23(4): 274-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Patients' and their relatives' attitudes toward electroconvulsive therapy in bipolar disorder.
    J ECT, 23(4): 255-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. Neurobiology of bipolar disorder.
    Expert Rev Neurother, 8(1): 93-110. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. Affective psychosis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and brain perfusion abnormalities: case report.
    Clin Pract Epidemol Ment Health, 3(1): 31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. Iloperidone: a new benzisoxazole atypical antipsychotic drug. Is it novel enough to impact the crowded atypical antipsychotic market?
    Expert Opin Investig Drugs, 17(1): 61-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
60. Increased frequency of depressive episodes during the menopausal transition in women with bipolar disorder: Preliminary report.
    J Psychiatr Res, 42(3): 247-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
61. Differences between prepubertal- versus adolescent- onset bipolar disorder in a Spanish clinical sample.
    Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 16(8): 510-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
62. Psychological evaluation of bariatric surgery applicants: procedures and reasons for delay or denial of surgery.
    Obes Surg, 17(12): 1578-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
63. Dark therapy for bipolar disorder using amber lenses for blue light blockade.
    Med Hypotheses, 70(2): 224-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
64. Chronic N-methyl-D-aspartate administration increases the turnover of arachidonic acid within brain phospholipids of the unanesthetized rat.
    J Lipid Res, 49(1): 162-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
65. Is the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism associated with bipolar disorder or with suicidal behavior of bipolar disorder patients?
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet, 147(1): 114-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
66. Familiality and diagnostic patterns of subphenotypes in the National Institutes of Mental Health bipolar sample.
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet, 147(1): 18-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
67. The dysbindin gene (DTNBP1) is associated with methamphetamine psychosis.
    Biol Psychiatry, 63(2): 191-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
68. Evidence for deficient modulation of amygdala response by prefrontal cortex in bipolar mania.
    Psychiatry Res, 162(1): 27-37. [Abstract] [Full-text]
69. Replication of linkage with bipolar disorder on chromosome 16p in the eastern Quebec population.
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. [Abstract] [Full-text]
70. Association of DAO and G72(DAOA)/G30 genes with bipolar affective disorder.
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. [Abstract] [Full-text]
71. Two methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene (MTHFR) polymorphisms, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: An association study.
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. [Abstract] [Full-text]
72. Association of MDR1 C3435T polymorphism with bipolar disorder in patients treated with valproic acid.
    Mol Biol Rep. [Abstract] [Full-text]
73. Pulmonary embolism in the ECT patient: a case report and discussion.
    Gen Hosp Psychiatry, 30(1): 87-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
74. The utility of SELENBP1 gene expression as a biomarker for major psychotic disorders: Replication in schizophrenia and extension to bipolar disorder with psychosis.
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. [Abstract] [Full-text]
75. Increased proapoptotic serum activity in patients with chronic mood disorders.
    Arch Med Res, 39(2): 242-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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