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 5 (2008), Issue 2 (February)

1. Issues in co-morbid severe mental illnesses in HIV infected individuals.
   Int Rev Psychiatry, 20(1): 95-101. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Gene expression profiling of major depression and suicide in the prefrontal cortex of postmortem brains.
   Neurosci Res, 60(2): 184-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Metabolic alterations in medication-free patients with bipolar disorder: A 3T CSF-corrected magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging study.
   Psychiatry Res, 162(2): 113-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Anatomical abnormalities of the anterior cingulate and paracingulate cortex in patients with bipolar I disorder.
   Psychiatry Res, 162(2): 123-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Euthymic Patients with Bipolar Disorder Show Decreased Reward Learning in a Probabilistic Reward Task.
   Biol Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Influence of child abuse on adult depression: moderation by the corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor gene.
   Arch Gen Psychiatry, 65(2): 190-200. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Reliability of post-mortem psychiatric diagnosis for neuroscience research.
   Aust N Z J Psychiatry, 42(3): 221-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Oxcarbazepine in the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder.
   Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 1: CD005171. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Antiglucocorticoid treatments for mood disorders.
   Cochrane Database Syst Rev. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Metabonomic analysis identifies molecular changes associated with the pathophysiology and drug treatment of bipolar disorder.
    Mol Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Persistent effects of mifepristone (RU-486) on cortisol levels in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
    J Psychiatr Res. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Parental communication style and family relationships in children of bipolar parents.
    Br J Clin Psychol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Brain creatine kinase activity in an animal model of mania.
    Life Sci, 82(7): 424-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. A systematic review of off-label uses of memantine for psychiatric disorders.
    Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Rapid-cycling bipolar I disorder: Course and treatment outcome of a large sample across Europe.
    J Psychiatr Res. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Validation of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire for screening for bipolar disorder in a UK sample.
    J Affect Disord. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. The relationship between childhood abuse and dissociation. Is it influenced by catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) activity?
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol, 11(2): 149-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Decreased mRNA expression of netrin-g1 and netrin-g2 in the temporal lobe in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
    Neuropsychopharmacology, 33(4): 933-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. A systematic review of existing data on long-term lithium therapy: neuroprotective or neurotoxic?
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol, 11(2): 269-87. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Hyperactive intracellular calcium dynamics in B lymphoblasts from patients with bipolar I disorder.
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol, 11(2): 185-96. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. The effects of pentazocine, a kappa agonist, in patients with mania.
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol, 11(2): 243-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Case-control studies show that a non-conservative amino-acid change from a glutamine to arginine in the P2RX7 purinergic receptor protein is associated with both bipolar- and unipolar-affective disorders.
    Mol Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Proteomic analysis of membrane microdomain-associated proteins in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder reveals alterations in LAMP, STXBP1 and BASP1 protein expression.
    Mol Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Risk for mania and positive emotional responding: too much of a good thing?
    Emotion, 8(1): 23-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. A multimethod investigation of the behavioral activation system in bipolar disorder.
    J Abnorm Psychol, 117(1): 164-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Cognitive responses to failure and success relate uniquely to bipolar depression versus mania.
    J Abnorm Psychol, 117(1): 154-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Observed emotional involvement and overinvolvement in families of patients with bipolar disorder.
    J Fam Psychol, 22(1): 71-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Covariance component models for multivariate binary traits in family data analysis.
    Stat Med, 27(7): 1086-105. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Attitudes of young people towards depression and mania.
    Psychol Psychother, 81: 15-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. The Role of Family Functioning in Bipolar Disorder in Families.
    J Abnorm Child Psychol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. The prevalence of mixed episodes during the course of illness in bipolar disorder.
    Acta Psychiatr Scand, 117(3): 216-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Insight, quality of life and cognitive functioning in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder.
    J Affect Disord. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. A prospective, open-label study of Aripiprazole mono- and adjunctive treatment in acute bipolar depression.
    J Affect Disord. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Prevalence of diabetes and the metabolic syndrome in a sample of patients with bipolar disorder.
    Bipolar Disord, 10(2): 342-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Lamotrigine in the acute treatment of bipolar depression: results of five double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials.
    Bipolar Disord, 10(2): 323-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Behavioral Approach System and Behavioral Inhibition System sensitivities and bipolar spectrum disorders: prospective prediction of bipolar mood episodes.
    Bipolar Disord, 10(2): 310-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Influence of mood state on capacity to consent to research in patients with bipolar disorder.
    Bipolar Disord, 10(2): 303-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Effects of trauma on bipolar disorder: the mediational role of interpersonal difficulties and alcohol dependence.
    Bipolar Disord, 10(2): 293-302. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Predictors of trait aggression in bipolar disorder.
    Bipolar Disord, 10(2): 285-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Hepatitis C testing and infection rates in bipolar patients with and without comorbid substance use disorders.
    Bipolar Disord, 10(2): 266-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Circadian activity rhythm abnormalities in ill and recovered bipolar I disorder patients.
    Bipolar Disord, 10(2): 256-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Neurocognitive profiles in bipolar I and bipolar II disorder: differences in pattern and magnitude of dysfunction.
    Bipolar Disord, 10(2): 245-55. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Clinical predictors of unrecognized bipolar I and II disorders.
    Bipolar Disord, 10(2): 238-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. What is the optimal serum lithium level in the long-term treatment of bipolar disorder--a review?
    Bipolar Disord, 10(2): 231-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. Modulation of human motor cortex excitability by quetiapine.
    Psychopharmacology (Berl), 196(4): 623-629. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. CBCL-pediatric bipolar disorder phenotype: severe ADHD or bipolar disorder?
    J Neural Transm, 115(2): 155-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Neuroleptic Drugs Revert the Contextual Fear Conditioning Deficit Presented by Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats: A Potential Animal Model of Emotional Context Processing in Schizophrenia?
    Schizophr Bull. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Increased expression of splicing factor SRp20 mRNA in bipolar disorder patients.
    J Affect Disord. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Going up in smoke: Tobacco smoking is associated with worse treatment outcomes in mania.
    J Affect Disord. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Quality of web-based information on bipolar disorder.
    J Affect Disord. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. Deciphering the lithium transcriptome: Microarray profiling of lithium-modulated gene expression in human neuronal cells.
    Neuroscience, 151(4): 1184-1197. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Omega-3 fatty acid deficiency augments amphetamine-induced behavioral sensitization in adult mice: prevention by chronic lithium treatment.
    J Psychiatr Res, 42(6): 458-68. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Adjunctive zonisamide for weight loss in euthymic bipolar disorder patients: a pilot study.
    J Psychiatr Res, 42(6): 451-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Nutritional therapies for mental disorders.
    Nutr J, 7: 2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Effects of lithium and valproate on serum and hippocampal neurotrophin-3 levels in an animal model of mania.
    J Psychiatr Res, 42(5): 416-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Predictors of dropout from group therapy among patients with bipolar and substance use disorders.
    Drug Alcohol Depend, 94(1): 272-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. Dysregulation of glutamate carboxypeptidase II in psychiatric disease.
    Schizophr Res, 99(1): 324-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. Increased fronto-temporal perfusion in bipolar disorder.
    J Affect Disord. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. Metabolic syndrome in outpatients receiving antipsychotic therapy in routine clinical practice: A cross-sectional assessment of a primary health care database.
    Eur Psychiatry, 23(2): 100-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
60. Factors associated with treatment nonadherence among US bipolar disorder patients.
    Hum Psychopharmacol, 23(2): 95-105. [Abstract] [Full-text]
61. Celecoxib as an adjunct in the treatment of depressive or mixed episodes of bipolar disorder: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study.
    Hum Psychopharmacol, 23(2): 87-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
62. Frontiers between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder.
    Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am, 17(2): 325-46, viii-ix. [Abstract] [Full-text]
63. Investigation of serum high-sensitive C-reactive protein levels across all mood states in bipolar disorder.
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. [Abstract] [Full-text]
64. Factors affecting agreement between severely mentally ill alcohol abusers' and collaterals' reports of alcohol and other substance abuse.
    Psychol Addict Behav, 22(1): 78-87. [Abstract] [Full-text]
65. Experience of subjective symptoms in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder.
    J Korean Med Sci, 23(1): 18-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
66. The link between neurosteroids and syndromic/syndromal components of the mood spectrum disorders in women during the premenstrual phase.
    Clin Pract Epidemol Ment Health, 4(1): 3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
67. Cognitive functions in euthymic state of bipolar disorder: An Indian study.
    Cognit Neuropsychiatry, 13(2): 135-47. [Abstract] [Full-text]
68. Assessment of circadian function in fibroblasts of patients with bipolar disorder.
    Mol Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
69. Identifying blood biomarkers for mood disorders using convergent functional genomics.
    Mol Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
70. Depot risperidone in the outpatient management of bipolar disorder: a 2-year study of 10 patients.
    Int Clin Psychopharmacol, 23(2): 88-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
71. Research with severely mentally ill latinas: successful recruitment and retention strategies.
    J Immigr Minor Health, 10(2): 145-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
72. Divergent backward masking performance in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: association with COMT.
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet, 147(2): 223-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
73. Phenomic, convergent functional genomic, and biomarker studies in a stress-reactive genetic animal model of bipolar disorder and co-morbid alcoholism.
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet, 147(2): 134-66. [Abstract] [Full-text]
74. Pediatric Bipolar Disorder.
    Annu Rev Clin Psychol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
75. Association between GSK-3beta -50T/C polymorphism and personality and psychotic symptoms in mood disorders.
    Psychiatry Res, 158(2): 132-140. [Abstract] [Full-text]
76. Association of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene and bipolar disorder with early age of onset in mainland China.
    Neurosci Lett, 433(2): 98-102. [Abstract] [Full-text]
77. Asenapine: a novel psychopharmacologicagent with a unique human receptor signature.
    J Psychopharmacol. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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