Bipolar Disorder Abstracts

Updated Thursday June 10, 2004 

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Development and Validation of a Screening Instrument for Bipolar Spectrum Disorder: The Mood Disorder Questionnaire Am J Psychiatry 157:1873-1875, November 2000 abstract 
A study to test the validity of the Mood Disorder questionnnaire found that a score of 7 has good diagnostic value in determing the presence of bipolar disorder

Identifying Risk Factors and Key Strategies in Linkage to Outpatient Psychiatric Care Am J Psychiatry 2000;157 1592-1598

Anxiety in Major Depression: Relationship to Suicide Attempts Am J Psychiatry 157:1614-1618, October 2000 Presence of anxiety may decrease suicide risk

High Vesicular Monoamine Transporter Binding in Asymptomatic Bipolar I Disorder: Sex Differences and Cognitive Correlates Am J Psychiatry 157:1619-1628, October 2000

American Journal of Psychiatry -- Abstracts Johnson et al. 157 (10) 1679Associations Between Bipolar Disorder and Other Psychiatric Disorders During Adolescence and Early Adulthood: A Community-Based Longitudinal Investigation

Exercise Treatment for Major Depression: Maintenance of Therapeutic Benefit at 10 Months
Michael Babyak, PhD, James A. Blumenthal, PhD, Steve Herman, PhD, Parinda Khatri, PhD, Murali Doraiswamy, MD, Kathleen Moore, PhD, W. Edward Craighead, PhD, Teri T. Baldewicz, PhD, and K. Ranga Krishnan, MD

Controlled trials in bipolar I depression: focus on switch rates and efficacy J.R. Calabrese, D.J. Rapport, S.E. Kimmel and M.D. Shelton European Neuropsychopharmacology, 1999, 9:S4:S109-S112 low switching rates observed in  studies  of lamotrigine, paroxetine and moclobemide

Divalproex Sodium in Substance Abusers With Mood Disorder medscape J Clinical Psychiatry

 

American Journal of PsychiatryAxis I Psychiatric Comorbidity and Its Relationship to Historical Illness Variable in 288 Patients with Bipolar Disorder (65%) of the patients with bipolar disorder also met DSM-IV criteria for at least one comorbid lifetime axis I disorder usually anxiety or substance use

Journal Scan - Psychiatry 3(9)

Clinical Factors Associated With Treatment Noncompliance in Euthymic Bipolar Patients 
A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of Risperidone Addition in Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor-Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder