Bipolar Disorder
Commentary
The importance of treating insomnia in psychiatric illness
Sleep disturbances can worsen symptoms of diagnosed mental illness, including substance abuse, mood and psychotic disorders.
Savvy Psychopharmacology
Psychiatric and nonpsychiatric indications for mood stabilizers and select antiepileptics
Mr. B, age 64, is being treated in the psychiatric clinic for generalized anxiety disorder. He also has a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus and...
Shrink Rap News
Microdosing psychedelics: Untapped potential in psychiatry?
There is little in the way of prospective, agent-verified, placebo-controlled research exploring whether or not microdosing is truly beneficial...
From the Journals
Psychotropic med use tied to ‘striking’ post-COVID dementia risk
“It is possible that psychotropic medications may potentiate the neurostructural changes that have been found in the brain of those who have...
From the Journals
Common eye disorder in children tied to mental illness
“Psychiatrists who have a patient with depression or anxiety and notice that patient also has strabismus might think about the link between those...
Latest News
DSM-5 update: What’s new?
The new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is in the form of a textbook, is already drawing some criticism.
From the Journals
Sublingual dexmedetomidine may rapidly calm bipolar agitation
Agitation is a common and tough-to-manage symptom associated with multiple neuropsychiatric conditions.
Out Of The Pipeline
Lumateperone for major depressive episodes in bipolar I or bipolar II disorder
Among patients with bipolar I or II disorder (BD I or II), major depressive episodes represent the predominant mood state when not euthymic, and...
Conference Coverage
When is your patient a candidate for ECT?
An emerging adjunct to ECT is cervical invasive vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy, according to Dr. Mark S. George.
From the Journals
Ketamine fast, effective for suicidal crises
“The effect of ketamine is particularly marked among patients with a bipolar disorder,” said Dr. Fabrice Jollant of the University of Paris.
Opinion
Things reproductive psychiatrists might ‘always’ or ‘never’ do in 2022
In reproductive psychiatry, we tend to apply available data and clinical experience as we guide patients on a case-by-case basis.