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Volume 8 (2011), Issue 5 (May)

1. Predisposing, Enabling, and Need Factors Associated with High Service Use in a Public Mental Health System.
   Adm Policy Ment Health. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Synaptic Wnt signaling-a contributor to major psychiatric disorders?
   J Neurodev Disord. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Characteristics of psychiatric inpatients who experienced restraint and those who did not: a case-control study.
   Psychiatr Serv, 62(5): 492-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptor polymorphisms and clinical characteristics in bipolar disorder patients.
   Psychoneuroendocrinology. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. γ-Hydroxybutyric acid-induced psychosis and seizures.
   Epilepsy Behav. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Impairments in "top-down" processing in bipolar disorder: A simultaneous fMRI-GSR study.
   Psychiatry Res, 192(2): 100-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Impulsivity in Adolescent Bipolar Disorder.
   Acta Neuropsychiatr, 23(2): 57-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Association between bovine casein antibody and new onset schizophrenia among US military personnel.
   Schizophr Res, 128(1): 51-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Deficits in GABA(B) receptor system in schizophrenia and mood disorders: A postmortem study.
   Schizophr Res, 128(1): 37-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. The impact of general intellectual ability and white matter volume on the functional outcome of patients with Bipolar Disorder and their relatives.
    J Affect Disord, 130(3): 413-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Screening for bipolar disorder in patients consulting general practitioners in France.
    J Affect Disord, 130(3): 492-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Misdiagnosing bipolar disorder - Do clinicians show heuristic biases?
    J Affect Disord, 130(3): 405-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Second-tier natural antidepressants: Review and critique.
    J Affect Disord, 130(3): 343-57. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Predisposing, Enabling, and Need Factors Associated with High Service Use in a Public Mental Health System.
    Adm Policy Ment Health. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Characteristics of psychiatric inpatients who experienced restraint and those who did not: a case-control study.
    Psychiatr Serv, 62(5): 492-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Impairments in "top-down" processing in bipolar disorder: a simultaneous fMRI-GSR study.
    Psychiatry Res, 192(2): 100-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Association between bovine casein antibody and new onset schizophrenia among US military personnel.
    Schizophr Res, 128(1): 51-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Familial and disease specific abnormalities in the neural correlates of the Stroop Task in Bipolar Disorder.
    Neuroimage, 56(3): 1677-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Deficits in GABA(B) receptor system in schizophrenia and mood disorders: a postmortem study.
    Schizophr Res, 128(1): 37-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. The impact of general intellectual ability and white matter volume on the functional outcome of patients with Bipolar Disorder and their relatives.
    J Affect Disord, 130(3): 413-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Screening for bipolar disorder in patients consulting general practitioners in France.
    J Affect Disord, 130(3): 492-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Misdiagnosing bipolar disorder--do clinicians show heuristic biases?
    J Affect Disord, 130(3): 405-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Second-tier natural antidepressants: review and critique.
    J Affect Disord, 130(3): 343-57. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Common proteomic changes in the hippocampus in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and particular evidence for involvement of cornu ammonis regions 2 and 3.
    Arch Gen Psychiatry, 68(5): 477-88. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Synthesis and characterization of selective dopamine D(2) receptor ligands using aripiprazole as the lead compound.
    Bioorg Med Chem. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Geriatric bipolar disorder.
    Psychiatr Clin North Am, 34(2): 319-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Psychological needs of adolescents in the early phase of bipolar disorder: implications for early intervention.
    Early Interv Psychiatry, 5(2): 100-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Gender differences in the effect of early life trauma on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning.
    Depress Anxiety, 28(5): 383-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Investigation of cortical thickness abnormalities in lithium-free adults with bipolar I disorder using cortical pattern matching.
    Am J Psychiatry, 168(5): 530-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Common proteomic changes in the hippocampus in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and particular evidence for involvement of cornu ammonis regions 2 and 3.
    Arch Gen Psychiatry, 68(5): 477-88. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Geriatric bipolar disorder.
    Psychiatr Clin North Am, 34(2): 319-33, vii. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Psychological needs of adolescents in the early phase of bipolar disorder: implications for early intervention.
    Early Interv Psychiatry, 5(2): 100-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Gender differences in the effect of early life trauma on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning.
    Depress Anxiety, 28(5): 383-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Investigation of cortical thickness abnormalities in lithium-free adults with bipolar I disorder using cortical pattern matching.
    Am J Psychiatry, 168(5): 530-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Monitoring and prevalence rates of metabolic syndrome in military veterans with serious mental illness.
    PLoS One, 6(4): e19298. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Prevalence and correlates of seclusion with or without restraint in a Canadian psychiatric hospital: a 2-year retrospective audit.
    J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs, 18(5): 394-402. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Neuroanatomical profile of antimaniac effects of histone deacetylases inhibitors.
    Mol Neurobiol, 43(3): 207-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Comparison of pre-episode and pre-remission states using mood ratings from patients with bipolar disorder.
    Pharmacopsychiatry, 44: S49-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. The clinical side of bipolar disorders.
    Pharmacopsychiatry, 44: S43-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Clinical management and burden of bipolar disorder: a multinational longitudinal study (WAVE-bd study).
    BMC Psychiatry, 11: 58. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Reversible parkinsonism and cognitive decline due to a possible interaction of valproic acid and quetiapine.
    J Clin Pharm Ther, 36(3): 430-2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Investigation into activation of dysfunctional schemas in euthymic bipolar disorder following positive mood induction.
    Br J Clin Psychol, 50(2): 115-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Reduced genual corpus callosal white matter integrity in pathological gambling and its relationship to alcohol abuse or dependence.
    World J Biol Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. The comorbidity of anxiety disorders in bipolar I and bipolar II patients among Turkish population.
    J Anxiety Disord, 25(5): 661-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. Suicide attempts are associated with worse quality of life in patients with bipolar disorder type I.
    Compr Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Antiepileptic drugs in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
    Epilepsy Behav, 21(1): 1-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Contact dependent reproducible hypomania induced by deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease: clinical, anatomical and functional imaging study.
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 82(6): 607-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Childhood Maltreatment and Internalized Shame in Adults with a Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder.
    Clin Psychol Psychother. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Hooked on a feeling: Rumination about positive and negative emotion in inter-episode bipolar disorder.
    J Abnorm Psychol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Survey of the effect of genetic variations on gene expression in human prefrontal cortex and its application to genetics of psychiatric disorders.
    Neurosci Res, 70(2): 238-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. Bipolar disorder susceptibility region on chromosome 3q29 not confirmed in a case-control association study.
    World J Biol Psychiatry, 12(4): 309-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Is anticonvulsant treatment of mania a class effect? Data from randomized clinical trials.
    CNS Neurosci Ther, 17(3): 167-77. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Comparative linkage meta-analysis reveals regionally-distinct, disparate genetic architectures: application to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
    PLoS One, 6(4): e19073. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Clustered coding variants in the glutamate receptor complexes of individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
    PLoS One, 6(4): e19011. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Young offspring at genetic risk of adult psychoses: the form of the trajectory of IQ or memory may orient to the right dysfunction at the right time.
    PLoS One, 6(4): e19153. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Aripiprazole in the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder: a critical review of the evidence and its dissemination into the scientific literature.
    PLoS Med, 8(5): e1000434. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. Review of atypical antipsychotics in anxiety.
    Eur Neuropsychopharmacol, 21(6): 429-49. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. Towards social inclusion through lifelong learning in mental health: analysis of change in the lives of the EMILIA project service users.
    Int J Soc Psychiatry, 57(3): 211-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. Brazilian psychiatric brain bank: a new contribution tool to network studies.
    Cell Tissue Bank. [Abstract] [Full-text]
60. Impairment in Functional Capacity as an Endophenotype Candidate in Severe Mental Illness.
    Schizophr Bull. [Abstract] [Full-text]
61. An IRT validation of the Affective Self Rating Scale.
    Nord J Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
62. Distinguishing symptoms of ADHD from other psychiatric disorders in the adult primary care setting.
    Postgrad Med, 123(3): 88-98. [Abstract] [Full-text]
63. Association of psychiatric illness and obesity, physical inactivity, and smoking among a national sample of veterans.
    Psychosomatics, 52(3): 230-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
64. Comparison of insight among schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients in remission of affective and positive symptoms: Analysis and critique.
    Eur Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
65. Specific role of VTA dopamine neuronal firing rates and morphology in the reversal of anxiety-related, but not depression-related behavior in the ClockΔ19 mouse model of mania.
    Neuropsychopharmacology, 36(7): 1478-88. [Abstract] [Full-text]
66. AKT kinase activity is required for lithium to modulate mood-related behaviors in mice.
    Neuropsychopharmacology, 36(7): 1397-411. [Abstract] [Full-text]
67. An unusual case of smothering secondary to ingesting raw pet cat.
    Am J Forensic Med Pathol, 32(2): 190-2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
68. Prevalence and diagnostic distribution of medically unexplained painful somatic symptoms across 571 major depressed outpatients.
    Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat, 7: 217-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
69. Relative impact of Axis I mental disorders on quality of life among adults in the community.
    J Affect Disord, 131(1): 293-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
70. The effect of overweight/obesity on cognitive function in euthymic individuals with bipolar disorder.
    Eur Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
71. Association of polymorphisms in HCN4 with mood disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder.
    Neurosci Lett, 496(3): 195-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
72. ESPECTRA: searching the bipolar spectrum in eating disorder patients.
    BMC Psychiatry, 11: 59. [Abstract] [Full-text]
73. Surgical treatment of morbid obesity among patients with bipolar disorder: a research agenda.
    Adv Ther, 28(5): 389-400. [Abstract] [Full-text]
74. MEK/ERKs signaling is essential for lithium-induced neurite outgrowth in N2a cells.
    Int J Dev Neurosci, 29(4): 415-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
75. Co-occurring manic symptomatology as a dimension which may help explaining heterogeneity of depression.
    J Affect Disord, 131(1): 224-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
76. Family history of psychiatric disorders and the outcome of psychiatric patients with DSM-IV major depressive disorder.
    J Affect Disord, 131(1): 251-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
77. Abnormal frontal cortex white matter connections in bipolar disorder: a DTI tractography study.
    J Affect Disord, 131(1): 299-306. [Abstract] [Full-text]
78. 'Bright side' and 'dark side' hypomania are associated with differences in psychological functioning, sleep and physical activity in a non-clinical sample of young adults.
    J Affect Disord, 131(1): 68-78. [Abstract] [Full-text]
79. Effectiveness of olanzapine monotherapy and olanzapine combination treatment in the long term following acute mania--results of a two year observational study in bipolar disorder (EMBLEM).
    J Affect Disord, 131(1): 320-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
80. Differences between bipolar I and bipolar II disorders in clinical features, comorbidity, and family history.
    J Affect Disord, 131(1): 59-67. [Abstract] [Full-text]
81. From putative genes to temperament and culture: cultural characteristics of the distribution of dominant affective temperaments in national studies.
    J Affect Disord, 131(1): 45-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
82. Screening for postpartum bipolar disorder: validation of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire.
    J Affect Disord, 131(1): 408-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
83. Aggression, ADHD symptoms, and dysphoria in children and adolescents diagnosed with bipolar disorder and ADHD.
    J Affect Disord, 131(1): 312-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
84. The role of BDNF genetic polymorphisms in bipolar disorder with psychiatric comorbidities.
    J Affect Disord, 131(1): 307-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
85. A French network of bipolar expert centres: a model to close the gap between evidence-based medicine and routine practice.
    J Affect Disord, 131(1): 358-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
86. Prospective evaluation of specialist inpatient treatment for refractory affective disorders.
    J Affect Disord, 131(1): 92-103. [Abstract] [Full-text]
87. Evaluating the first 1000 patients referred to a specialist depression clinic: a case for tertiary referral facilities.
    J Affect Disord, 131(1): 52-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
88. Sexual behavior in women with bipolar disorder.
    J Affect Disord, 131(1): 364-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
89. Development of an integrated psychosocial treatment to address the medical burden associated with bipolar disorder.
    J Psychiatr Pract, 17(3): 224-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
90. Guidelines for treatment-resistant mania in children with bipolar disorder.
    J Psychiatr Pract, 17(3): 186-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
91. Agitation in the inpatient psychiatric setting: a review of clinical presentation, burden, and treatment.
    J Psychiatr Pract, 17(3): 170-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
92. Adjunctive gabapentin for treatment-resistant insomnia of bipolar disorder: a case report.
    Clin Neuropharmacol, 34(3): 129-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
93. Estimation of resource utilisation difference between lithium and valproate treatment groups from the VALID study.
    J Med Econ, 14(3): 350-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
94. Knockdown of mental disorder susceptibility genes disrupts neuronal network physiology in vitro.
    Mol Cell Neurosci, 47(2): 93-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
95. The genetic variation of RELN expression in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
    PLoS One, 6(5): e19955. [Abstract] [Full-text]
96. A case of mania due to cryptococcal meningitis, successfully treated with adjunctive olanzapine, in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
    Gen Hosp Psychiatry, 33(3): 301.e3-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
97. Post-stroke mania precipitated by withdrawal of antidepressant in an elderly patient with chronic major depression.
    Gen Hosp Psychiatry, 33(3): 301.e13-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
98. Secondary mania associated with enterococcal meningitis in an elderly patient.
    Gen Hosp Psychiatry, 33(3): 301.e1-2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
99. Prevalence of liver disease in veterans with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
    Gen Hosp Psychiatry, 33(3): 232-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
100. Receptor targets for antidepressant therapy in bipolar disorder: An overview.
     J Affect Disord. [Abstract] [Full-text]
101. Association between the TPH1 A218C polymorphism and risk of mood disorders and alcohol dependence: Evidence from the current studies.
     J Affect Disord. [Abstract] [Full-text]
102. Subcortical brain volumes relate to neurocognition in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and healthy controls.
     Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 35(4): 1122-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
103. Shared impairment in associative learning in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
     Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 35(4): 1093-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
104. Sex-specific cortisol levels in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia during mental challenge--relationship to clinical characteristics and medication.
     Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 35(4): 1100-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
105. Differential pattern of semantic memory organization between bipolar I and II disorders.
     Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 35(4): 1053-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
106. Does telomere length mediate associations between inbreeding and increased risk for bipolar I disorder and schizophrenia?
     Psychiatry Res, 188(1): 129-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
107. Impulsivity and aggressiveness in bipolar disorder with co-morbid borderline personality disorder.
     Psychiatry Res, 188(1): 40-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
108. An admixture analysis of the age at index episodes in bipolar disorder.
     Psychiatry Res, 188(1): 34-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
109. Diagnostic stability of first-episode psychosis and predictors of diagnostic shift from non-affective psychosis to bipolar disorder: a retrospective evaluation after recurrence.
     Psychiatry Res, 188(1): 29-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
110. Efficacy and safety of electroconvulsive therapy in the treatment of bipolar disorder: a systematic review.
     J ECT, 27(2): 153-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
111. Effectiveness of maintenance electroconvulsive therapy in rapid-cycling bipolar disorder.
     J ECT, 27(2): 123-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
112. Inpatient mother-and-child postpartum psychiatric care: factors associated with improvement in maternal mental health.
     Eur Psychiatry, 26(4): 215-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
113. Altered expression of glutamate signaling, growth factor, and glia genes in the locus coeruleus of patients with major depression.
     Mol Psychiatry, 16(6): 634-46. [Abstract] [Full-text]
114. Failure of de-activation in the medial frontal cortex in mania: evidence for default mode network dysfunction in the disorder.
     World J Biol Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
115. Association between affective temperaments and bipolar spectrum disorders: preliminary perspectives from a controlled family study.
     Psychopathology, 44(4): 216-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
116. Mood and cognition in leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 G2019S Parkinson's disease.
     Mov Disord. [Abstract] [Full-text]
117. Postural control in bipolar disorder: increased sway area and decreased dynamical complexity.
     PLoS One, 6(5): e19824. [Abstract] [Full-text]
118. Life expectancy at birth for people with serious mental illness and other major disorders from a secondary mental health care case register in London.
     PLoS One, 6(5): e19590. [Abstract] [Full-text]
119. Synthesis and characterization of selective dopamine D₂ receptor ligands using aripiprazole as the lead compound.
     Bioorg Med Chem, 19(11): 3502-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
120. Disordered (pathologic or problem) gambling and axis I psychiatric disorders: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.
     Am J Epidemiol, 173(11): 1289-97. [Abstract] [Full-text]
121. Lithium-associated Mobitz II block: case series and review of the literature.
     Pacing Clin Electrophysiol, 34(5): e47-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
122. Exploring the relationship between vitamin D and basic personality traits.
     Psychopharmacology (Berl), 215(4): 733-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
123. The prevalence and course of pathological gambling in the mood disorders.
     J Gambl Stud, 27(2): 191-201. [Abstract] [Full-text]
124. Effects of a CACNA1C genotype on attention networks in healthy individuals.
     Psychol Med, 41(7): 1551-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
125. Transcranial direct current stimulation for the outpatient treatment of poor-responder depressed patients.
     Eur Psychiatry. [Abstract] [Full-text]
126. Bipolarity and inadequate response to antidepressant drugs: Clinical and psychopharmacological perspective.
     J Affect Disord. [Abstract] [Full-text]
127. Bipolar disorder and resembling special psychopathological manifestations in multiple sclerosis: a review.
     Curr Opin Psychiatry, 24(4): 336-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
128. Experience of mindfulness in people with bipolar disorder: a qualitative study.
     Psychother Res, 21(3): 277-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
129. Genetic variability within the S100B gene influences the personality trait self-directedness.
     Psychoneuroendocrinology, 36(6): 919-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
130. Diagnosis of depression by MRI scans with the use of VSRAD - a promising auxiliary means of diagnosis: a report of 10 years research.
     Int J Gen Med, 4: 377-87. [Abstract] [Full-text]
131. Double-blind randomized trial of risperidone versus divalproex in pediatric bipolar disorder: fMRI outcomes.
     Psychiatry Res, 193(1): 28-37. [Abstract] [Full-text]
132. Preliminary evidence of within-subject changes in gray matter density associated with remission of bipolar depression.
     Psychiatry Res, 193(1): 53-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
133. Differential effects of DAAO on regional activation and functional connectivity in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and controls.
     Neuroimage, 56(4): 2283-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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