Bipolar Disorder

Misdiagnosis and late diagnosis may be preventing older patients with bipolar disorder from getting proper care.

While psychotropic medications for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other psychiatric disorders can cause weight gain, patients can take small steps to improve their health.

A high-powered lawyer faces her toughest opponent yet: mental illness stigma.

Many patients with bipolar and other psychiatric disorders believe it is better to wait to address cigarette and other nicotine use. Here is why that is not necessarily the case.

In what 5 ways can anxiety present in bipolar disorder?

A case report and literature review of intrathecal methotrexate-induced mania.

Although supported by basic science, it’s still a sea change to think that diet can treat depression. Some research puts that idea to the test.

If approved by the FDA, this treatment would be the first therapy for treating depressive episodes in both bipolar I and II disorder in 2 different forms.

When dealing with a serious mental illness, speaking out and sharing common experiences can help healing.

As we learn about the effect of COVID-19 on patients with bipolar and other psychiatric disorders, clinicians should be prepared to ask questions to uncover new syndromic behaviors.

A new test screens for bipolar disorder with respectable accuracy

Are there differences in the clinical course of bipolar I and bipolar II disorder with and without comorbid alcohol use disorder?

When concern for a patient is not so severe that a clinician feels compelled to call the police, there are options.

Although clinicians and patients may wish otherwise, the comorbidity of ADHD and bipolar disorder needs to be considered.

What are they key differences between ADHD and bipolar disorder? How can they be identified?

For many patients, the most painful part of bipolar disorder is the loss of control over their own mind.

The psychiatric prescribing clinician may be called upon to treat pain comorbid with bipolar disorder.

David Osser, MD, comments on the low priority of valproate for treating patients with bipolar disorder.

Is valproic acid dismissed out of hand? Three doctors discuss its potential as a treatment.

Oxcarbazepine might be considered for patients who you want to treat with carbamazepine for mania (as monotherapy or adjunct) but for whom it would be unsafe or who have been unable to tolerate it.

The risk of “false positive” screening in primary care settings is reduced by a thorough clinical evaluation.

Bipolar disorder screening scales have modest sensitivity; thus, a negative result does not preclude a clinical evaluation.

Alkermes plc’s new drug, ALKS 3831, pending FDA approval, could be helpful in the treatment of patients with schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder.

There are some off-label proposed uses for topiramate in comorbidities that are common in patients with bipolar disorder. What does the evidence say?

The musical prodigy is believed to have had a hyperthymic temperament, but he was also vulnerable to sweeping bouts of depression and guilt. Psychiatrist and virtuoso Richard Kogan, MD, puts music to storytelling, to explain the phenomenon of genius.

Valproate/divalproex appears to be considerably overused in the US; the use of lithium, second-generation antipsychotics, and carbamazepine should be more prominent in treatment decisions for patients with bipolar mania.

Do you prescribe antidepressants for your patients with bipolar depression? If so, think again, and consider results from these studies.

Critical brain maturation occurs from fetal development through adolescence; given the complex and variable nature of these changes, disentangling abnormal neurodevelopment from neuroprogression is a formidable task.

In this poignant video, Dr Frank Clark shares what led up to his writing Chocolate-Flavored PTSD and Runner's Paradox.