by Elana Gotkine Cannabis use disorder (CUD) is associated with increased risk of psychotic and nonpsychotic bipolar disorder and unipolar depression, according to a study published online May 24 in JAMA Psychiatry. Oskar Hougaard Jefsen, M.D., from Aarhus University Hospital-Psychiatry in Denmark, and colleagues examined whether CUD is associated with increased risk of psychotic and nonpsychotic...
by Leah Eisenstadt, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Protein changes at brain cell synapses from patients with schizophrenia were strikingly similar to those from patients with bipolar disorder. Credit: Sonja Vasiljeva/Broad Institute Although bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are diagnosed as distinct psychiatric conditions, both are considerably heritable with molecular roots that are poorly understood. Some...
Frederik Joelving January 19, 202205People with bipolar disorder as well as their unaffected siblings appear to be at increased risk for cancer, particularly of the breast, according to new research from Taiwan. “To our knowledge, our study is the first to report an increased overall cancer risk as well as increased risks of breast and ectodermal cancer...
Schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder are two distinct mental health conditions. The two conditions share common, overlapping features such as mood and psychotic symptoms, making them challenging to distinguish. Psychosis, or the presence of hallucinations and delusions, is common across many psychiatric conditions. Schizoaffective disorder is a mental health condition characterized by schizophrenia and mood...
by University College Dublin Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder may be detectable years before the illnesses begin, according to new research. A University College Dublin led study funded by the Health Research Board has found that 50% of people who developed these mental health disorders had attended specialist child and adolescent...
Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that can result in extreme shifts in mood. As this may affect how a person thinks, feels, and behaves, it may present challenges that can make it difficult to maintain friendships. Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that can severely disrupt a person’s life. There are different types of bipolar...
Karolinska Institutet A bottle of lithium capsules. Credit: James Heilman, MD/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Six predictors could help determine the amount of lithium needed to treat patients with bipolar disorder, according to a large study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The study, published in the journal The Lancet Psychiatry, also pinpoints genetic markers that...
Lithium’s main treatment for bipolar disorder was approved a half-century ago but didn’t help all patients and has significant side effects. In part, little progress has been made in finding better therapies because scientists don’t fully understand how the condition arises or exactly how lithium improves symptoms when it does work. A genetic study involving...
by Ingrid Fadelli, Medical Xpress Seed points may spread the chromatin hyperacetylation in the nucleus of the nerve cells of the immature brain, resulting in psychiatric disease later in life. Credit: Girdhar et al. The complete set of nucleic acid sequences composing chromosomes in humans, encoded as DNA, is known as the “human genome sequence.”...
by University of New South Wales Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A brain imaging study of young people at high risk of developing bipolar disorder has for the first time found evidence of weakening connections between key areas of the brain in late adolescence. Up until now, medical researchers knew that bipolar disorder was associated with reduced communication...
