Patients suffering from serious mental illness who are hospitalized for mania are more likely to be taking antibiotics to treat infections than patients without a mental disorder, according to a new ...

Patients with bipolar disorder who experience manic episodes are more likely to show abnormal brain changes over time, according to one of the largest longitudinal brain imaging studies in its field ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece, 11 February 2025 - In a notable Genomic Press research report, researchers at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki have uncovered a significant presence of manic symptoms in ...

The study included approximately 400 adults with a history of bipolar I disorder who had a current episode of mania. Iloperidone was associated with significant improvement in adults with bipolar I ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mania was associated with reduced dopamine transporter density levels among those with bipolar disorder, ...

Subthreshold manic or hypomanic symptoms frequently precede clinical mood episodes in the children of patients with the condition, a study shows. “Clinicians should carefully assess for subthreshold ...

In any clinical context, continuity of care is an important contributor to long-term outcomes. Treating serious mental ...

Patients treated with iloperidone had significantly larger improvements vs placebo based on the change from baseline in the Young Mania Rating Scale total score. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

Hayes et al 12 conducted one of the most recent large studies to compare lithium with newer second-generation antipsychotics as maintenance monotherapy for bipolar disorder. The authors concluded that ...

Manic-depression, or bipolar disorder, is one of the most misdiagnosed conditions in psychiatry. Part of the problem, as noted in yesterday's post, is that the term bipolar has been watered down to an ...