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Post by healthy11 on May 21, 2015 16:13:48 GMT -5
medicalxpress.com/news/2018-01-early-symptoms-bipolar-disorder-evidence.html Jan. 2018: Two patterns of antecedent or "prodromal" psychiatric symptoms may help to identify young persons at increased risk of developing bipolar disorder (BD), according to a new analysis in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry DOI: 10.1097/HRP.0000000000000161. Early signs of BD can fall into a relatively characteristic "homotypic" pattern, consisting mainly of symptoms or other features associated with mood disorders; or a "heterotypic" pattern of other symptoms including anxiety and disruptive behavior. Environmental risk factors and exposures can also contribute to BD risk, according to the analysis by Ciro Marangoni, MD et al.... www.discoverylife.com/tv-shows/psych-week/ May 25-29, 2015 featured a variety of segments on mental health disorders, including autism, schizophrenia, hoarding, bipolar, and more. Among the stories covered will be one about the son of actress Madchen Amick, who was diagnosed with bipolar as a young adult. Her discussion about his initial misdiagnosis, and difficulties in college with "self-medicating" along with how proper treatment eventually helped, are well-worth reading: www.yahoo.com/parenting/what-one-star-learned-from-raising-a-bipolar-son-119462497247.html
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Post by healthy11 on Dec 15, 2017 21:08:18 GMT -5
medicalxpress.com/news/2017-12-years-bipolar-disorder-team.html "After searching 12 years for bipolar disorder's cause, a University of Michigan team has an answer - or rather, seven answers. In fact, they say, no one genetic change, or chemical imbalance, or life event, lies at the heart of every case of the mental health condition once known as manic depression. Rather, every patient's experience with bipolar disorder varies from that of others with the condition. But all of their experiences include features that fall into seven classes of phenotypes, or characteristics that can be observed, the team reports in a new paper in the International Journal of Epidemiology...." Read the full article for more details. For additional information: Melvin G McInnis et al, Cohort Profile: The Heinz C. Prechter Longitudinal Study of Bipolar Disorder, International Journal of Epidemiology (2017). DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx229 The Prechter Bipolar Research Program is still recruiting participants for its long-term study, and accepting donations from those who want to help the research move forward. More information is available at www.prechterprogram.org
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