Bipolar Disorder News and Research

Latest Bipolar Disorder News and Research

Exercise may not be ‘one size fits all’ in bipolar patients

Researchers say that more study is needed of the relationship between exercise and symptoms among patients with bipolar disorder.

6 Sep 2013

Acute manic episodes linked to increased edema risk

Bipolar disorder patients admitted to hospital with a manic episode are at an increased risk for lower limb edema, compared with their peers with depressive or non-affective psychosis episodes, study findings show.

5 Sep 2013

Elan enrolls first patient dosing in phase 2a study of ELND005 in Down syndrome

Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE: ELN) announced today the first patient dosing in a Phase 2a study of ELND005 in Down syndrome. Study ELND005-DS201 will evaluate the safety and pharmacokinetics of 2 doses of ELND005 and placebo in young adults with Down syndrome without dementia, and will also include select cognitive and behavioural measures.

5 Sep 2013

Dementia risk for bipolar disorder patients

Patients with bipolar disorder are at increased risk for developing dementia, both pre-senile and senile, a study of a nationwide dataset in Taiwan confirms.

4 Sep 2013

Increased mortality in schizophrenia ‘not attributable to drug therapy’

The increased mortality risk observed among patients with severe psychiatric illness, including schizophrenia, does not seem to be attributable to use of psychopharmacologic therapy, study findings indicate.

4 Sep 2013

Bipolar patients struggle with emotional distraction

Patients with bipolar disorder struggle with cognitive tasks in the face of emotional distractions, a study shows.

3 Sep 2013

Schizophrenia genetics come into focus

A study in Nature Genetics illustrates the large impact of genetic variation on risk for schizophrenia.

30 Aug 2013

Improved pediatric bipolar screen unveiled

Researchers have developed a screening instrument for detecting bipolar disorder in children and adolescents from the general population.

30 Aug 2013

Heritability of severe mental illness may be underestimated

Around one in three children of parents with a severe mental illness – schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depressive disorder – will develop such a disorder themselves by early adulthood, a meta-analysis has found.

29 Aug 2013

Blood biomarkers predict suicidality

Researchers have found possible blood biomarkers for suicidal behavior that could help identify psychiatric patients at risk.

29 Aug 2013

Impulsivity may be vulnerability marker for bipolar disorder

People with bipolar disorder type I are significantly more impulsive than the general population, while their siblings show an intermediate level of impulsivity, a study by Brazilian researchers shows.

29 Aug 2013

Personality may be key to genetics of bipolar disorder

People with bipolar disorder vary significantly from their unaffected relatives, and from healthy controls, on several measures of personality, a study shows.

28 Aug 2013

RNA Biomarkers Might Predict Suicide Risk

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22 Aug 2013

Three University of Sydney research teams win NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence

World-changing collaborative research in the areas of youth mental health, metabolic health and sleep medicine have seen three research teams at the University of Sydney funded for five years as NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence.

21 Aug 2013

RNA biomarkers in blood may identify people at risk for committing suicide

Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have found a series of RNA biomarkers in blood that may help identify who is at risk for committing suicide.

20 Aug 2013

Identifying bipolarity through MRI's proves successful in initial results

What are some of the most troubling numbers in mental health? Six to 10 -- the number of years it can take to properly diagnose a mental health condition. Dr. Elizabeth Osuch, a Researcher at Lawson Health Research Institute and a Psychiatrist at London Health Sciences Centre and the Department of Psychiatry at Western University, is helping to end misdiagnosis by looking for a 'biomarker' in the brain that will help diagnose and treat two commonly misdiagnosed disorders.

16 Aug 2013

Study shows schizophrenia, bipolar disorder share the most common genetic variation

The largest genome-wide study of its kind has determined how much five major mental illnesses are traceable to the same common inherited genetic variations. Researchers funded in part by the National Institutes of Health found that the overlap was highest between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder; moderate for bipolar disorder and depression and for ADHD and depression; and low between schizophrenia and autism.

12 Aug 2013

Researchers unveil comprehensive portrait of the genome of world's first immortal cell line

A team from the University of Washington has unveiled a comprehensive portrait of the genome of the world's first immortal cell line, known as HeLa. The cell line was derived in 1951 from an aggressive cervical cancer that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year-old African-American tobacco farmer and mother of five - the subject of the 2010 New York Times bestseller, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

8 Aug 2013

Forest Laboratories, Pierre Fabre Laboratories announce that FETZIMA gets FDA approval for MDD

Forest Laboratories, Inc. and Pierre Fabre Laboratories announced today that FETZIMA (levomilnacipran extended-release capsules), a once-daily serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, discovered by Pierre Fabre Laboratories and co-developed by Forest Laboratories, Inc. was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder in adults.

26 Jul 2013

Study: Bipolar disorder evolves differently in patients who binge eat

Bipolar disorder evolves differently in patients who also binge eat, a study by Mayo Clinic, the Lindner Center of HOPE and the University of Minnesota found. Binge eating and obesity often are present among bipolar patients, but the mood disorder appears to take a different path in those who binge eat than it does in obese bipolar patients who do not, the researchers discovered.

26 Jul 2013