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.
30/09/2009 | Children of women who take SSRIs in early pregnancy are at an increased risk of septal heart defects, although the absolute risk remains low, an international study finds.
24/09/2009 | Definitions of 'treatment resistance' in unipolar depression are inadequate to define treatment-resistant bipolar depression because they fail to account for the nature of the illness or the full range of potentially effective treatments, European psychiatrists have claimed. 1 comment
03/09/2009 | Developing bipolar 1 disorder at an early age is associated with worse clinical outcomes, an Australian study finds.
24/08/2009 | New guidelines sponsored by the International Society for Bipolar Disorders emphasise the multiple benefits of monitoring physical health in people treated with mood stabilisers. 1 comment
02/07/2009 | Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents typically follows a tumultuous course with periods of apparent euthymia interrupted by numerous changes in mood state and a high frequency of subsyndromal symptoms, a new study has shown.