Bipolar Disorder

AMA Moves to Ban Direct-To-Consumer Pharmaceutical Ads

According to the AMA, direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals and medical devices drives up health care costs and should be banned. [More…]

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By R Kennedy | Advertising . Antidepressant medication . Antipsychotic medication . Bipolar Depression . Bipolar Disorder . Depression . Direct-to-Consumer . Drug marketing . FDA . Health Industry . Mental health . News . Pharmaceutical Industry
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Diabetes Screening Inadequate in Mentally Ill

New research shows that despite long-standing recommendations that severely mentally ill patients who take antipsychotics undergo annual screening for diabetes and other metabolic disorders, only 30% receive such screening. A recent research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine described a retrospective cohort study that analyzed diabetes screening prevalence and predictors of screening among adults in the California […]

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By R Kennedy | Antipsychotic medication . Bipolar Disorder . Cardiovascular . Cardiovascular Risk Factors . Diabetes . Mental health . Metabolic screening . Schizophrenia
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Delays In Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients with Bipolar Disorder

According to a study in PLOS One journal, there is often a substantial delay before diagnosis and treatment initiation of patients with bipolar disorder. Researchers sought to investigate factors associated with the delay before diagnosis of bipolar disorder and the onset of treatment in secondary mental healthcare. Medical records of 1364 adults diagnosed with bipolar […]

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By R Kennedy | Bipolar Disorder . Delayed diagnosis . Diagnosis
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Task Force Report on Antidepressant Use in Bipolar Disorders

The International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) Task Force Report on Antidepressant Use in Bipolar Disorders has been published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The task force commented that there is “striking incongruity between the wide use of and the weak evidence base for the efficacy and safety of antidepressant drugs in bipolar disorder.” […]

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By R Kennedy | Antidepressant medication . Bipolar Depression . Bipolar Disorder . Depression
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Sixth Annual Chair Summit Begins This Week

This week a Master Class for Neuroscience Development called the Chair Summit takes place in Tampa, FL (Sept 26-28, 2013). In the early days of medical training in Kos, students, trainees and medical colleagues would gather to discuss their cases and the latest science with Hippocrates.  This model of education was maintained throughout the centuries […]

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By R Kennedy | Addiction . ADHD . Antipsychotic medication . Anxiety Disorders . Biomarker . Bipolar Disorder . Cardiovascular Risk Factors . Chronic Pain . CME . Dementia . Depression . Diabetes . Diagnosis . Digital medicine . Drug Development . Drugs . DSM-5 . Early intervention . Education . Food . Genetics . Guideline . Imaging . Maintenance of Certification . Measurement-based care . Medical Education . Mood . MRI . Multiple sclerosis . Negative symptoms . Neuroscience . Obesity . Opioids . PET . Practice guideline . Psychosis . PTSD . Research . Schizophrenia . Smoking cessation . Social media . Stroke . Substance abuse . Transcranial magnetic stimulation . Vascular dementia
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White House Conference on Mental Health

This week, the White House organized a conference on mental health with a particular emphasis on stigma and awareness. President Barack Obama opened the conference by calling for a more robust national discussion on mental illness, saying the time had come to bring the issue “out of the shadows.” He added, that his goal was […]

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By R Kennedy | Bipolar Disorder . Disability . Discrimination . Mental health . Stigma
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Pain conditions among veterans with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder

A study published in General Hospital Psychiatry evaluated the rates of chronic, noncancer pain conditions in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) System. Researchers used a cross-sectional design that used administrative data extracted from VHA treatment records of all individuals receiving VHA services in one year (N=751). They […]

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By R Kennedy | Bipolar Disorder . Chronic Pain . Pain . Schizophrenia
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Bipolar Disorder – A Focus on Depression

Live today,  neuroscienceCME Live and On Demand Bipolar Disorder – A Focus on Depression. [More…]

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By R Kennedy | Bipolar Depression . Bipolar Disorder . Depression . News
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