BP TODAY - Tricyclic antidepressants may induce mood conversions in bipolar disorder, according to a new retropective study done in Poland.
The aim of this retrospective study was an analysis of antidepressant-induced mood conversions to mania/hypomania occurring in bipolar inpatients treated with antidepressants in the Affective Disorder Unit of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, [...]
BP TODAY - A team of French scientists have identified 8 risk factors associated with lifetime suicide attempts of bipolar patients from a France national cohort.
Risk factors that may be associated with suicide attempts in bipolar disorder are still a matter of debate. The researchers compared demographic, illness course, clinical, and temperamental features of suicide [...]
UPI - Bipolar disorder, like smoking, increases the risk of early death from medical illnesses, a U.S. review found.
The review of 17 studies, published in Psychiatric Services, involving more than 331,000 patients suggested that people with bipolar disorder have a higher mortality from natural causes compared with people in the general population of similar age [...]
