19/08/2010 | A special supplement on bipolar disorder in the Medical Journal of Australia has urged clinicians to translate theory into practice and implement recent advances in treatment.
04/08/2010 | An intravenous infusion with the NMDA antagonist ketamine can significantly improve the symptoms of treatment-resistant bipolar depression within 40 minutes, a randomised trial has concluded.
13/05/2010 | Group-based psychosocial interventions can reduce relapses and the time spent unwell among people with bipolar disorder, a Melbourne study has concluded.
25/03/2010 | Researchers have developed a mania rating scale that allows non-professionals in regular contact with a patient to diagnose a manic episode.
18/03/2010 | Physicians need to think of bipolar disorder, not borderline personality disorder (BPD), when assessing individuals with a history of self mutilation, experts say. 1 comment
24/02/2010 | Patients with bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder have a poorer prognosis if they are smokers, a prospective two year Melbourne study has shown.
18/02/2010 | Melbourne psychiatrists and obstetricians have calling for comprehensive multidisciplinary care for women who need to be treated with antipsychotic medications and mood stabilisers during pregnancy.
17/02/2010 | People who achieve excellent grades at school are nearly four times more likely to develop bipolar disorder than those who produce average results, a study finds.
10/12/2009 | Anti-epileptic drugs do not increase the risk of suicide attempts in patients with bipolar disorder, despite FDA warnings to the contrary, a study finds.
15/10/2009 | Higher levels of anxiety during bipolar mood episodes and first episode polarity appear to mark an illness of substantially greater long-term depressive morbidity, a study finds.