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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"bipolar disorders"”.
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Towards an evolutionary perspective of bipolar disorders: Is there a genetic link between bipolar disorders and non-pathological (adaptive) hyperactivity?
… of chronic hypomanic symptoms or advanced mood disorders. In general, temperaments have been verified to belong to the domain of normality rather than the sphere of pathology, in accordance with their putative adaptive role. Commonly, achieving success, experiencing excitement and joy, and …
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Virtual Reality Frontiers in Bipolar Disorders: A Recovery Oriented Cognitive Rehabilitation tool.
… rehabilitation outcome for people with mental disorders. This represents a barrier to achieve clinical, personal and social outcomes essential for a good quality of life. In line with the WHO innovation objective are increasing the use of technologies for treatment of mental disorders. This …
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An Investigation of Psychosocial Functioning for Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorders
… review of how the various sub-types of bipolar disorders are related to a child's daily functioning. Also, this study examined the age of onset of the disorder as it is related to psychosocial functioning. Specifically, age of onset was compared with psychosocial functioning in the areas …
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Introspective accuracy for social cognition across the psychosis spectrum: Influence of sleep disturbance
<p>People with schizophrenia-spectrum and bipolar disorders can have impairments in introspective accuracy (IA; ability to accurately estimate one’s own abilities). Research suggests that positive, negative, and depressive symptoms may be related to IA, but findings are mixed. Examining sleep …
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A critical examination of multidimensionality within the Hypomanic Personality Scale
… is a psychometric assessment that identifies bipolar spectrum psychopathology and risk for bipolar disorders. Despite its conceptualization as a unidimensional scale, several studies have attempted to derive an underlying multidimensional structure of the HPS. Given the lack of consensus …
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THE LONG-TERM COURSE OF BIPOLAR SPECTRUM DISORDER: APPLICATIONS OF THE BEHAVIORAL APPROACH SYSTEM (BAS) MODEL
… System (BAS) model as applied to the course of bipolar spectrum disorders. In this model, when a vulnerable individual experiences a BAS activation-relevant event, the weak regulatory strength of the BAS interacts with pre-event BAS state and is likely to lead to hypomania/mania. In contrast, …
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Risk taking behaviour in bipolar affective disorder
… of risk taking behaviour and impulsivity in bipolar affective disorder. Involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential, or risk, for unwanted consequences forms one of the DSM IV diagnostic criteria for (hypo)mania; however, little research has investigated the prevalence of …
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The preparation and characterization of multi-component systems in drug pre-formulation
… and valproic acid (for treatment of epilepsy and bipolar disorders). Allopurinol and 6-thioguanine were fairly intractable, yielding very limited results following co-crystallization trials with a series of co-formers. However, a new polymorph of one of the co-formers, namely isonicotinamide, was …
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Association of incident gabapentin use: with long-term use of opioids, benzodiazepines and Z-drugs
… off-label use has increased for various disorders, including mental disorders, such as anxiety disorders and bipolar disorders as well as chronic back pain. Gabapentin prescriptions have increased markedly in recent years in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Recent studies …
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A retrospective audit comparing state patients with schizophrenia and bipolar mood disorder who have committed violent crime admitted to the male forensic unit at Valkenberg Hospital
… does exist between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and violence and aggressive behavior In forensic mental health, state patients are rehabilitated in a general program regardless of diagnosis. It is not known whether different rehabilitation management strategies should be …
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Depression in the Lundby Study 1947-1997 Incidence, course and risk-factors
… problems, incidence and course of depressive disorders as well as possible risk factors for depression within the framework of the Lundby Study. The Lundby population was investigated in 1947, 1957, 1972 and 1997. In 1947 the population consisted of 2550 subjects and in 1957, 1013 were added. …
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Examining the Course of Cyclothymic Disorder and Comparing it to Dysthymic Disorder and Other Bipolar Spectrum Disorders in Children
… with impaired functioning and with later bipolar I or II disorder. Cyclothymic disorder in children is characterized by chronic mood fluctuations that cycle between periods of depression and hypomania that do not meet diagnostic criteria for a full episode. Diagnosis of this disorder is …
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Langzeitmonitoring symptomnaher Verhaltensparameter bei Patienten mit bipolaren Erkrankungen
… zuverlässige Erkennung von Frühwarnzeichen bei Bipolaren Erkrankungen ist für die Prä-vention neuer Krankheitsepisoden von essentieller Bedeutung (Morriss et al., 2007), unterliegt in der Durchführung im klinischen Alltag jedoch verzerrungsbedingt einigen Schwierigkeiten (Kessler et al., 2000; …
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Características clínicas y sociodemográficas de los pacientes hospitalizados con diagnóstico de Trastorno Bipolar en la Unidad de Trastornos Bipolares de la Clínica Psiquiátrica Universitaria de la Universidad de Chile, entre los años 2014 y 2020
Introducción: Los trastornos bipolares (TB) son patologías de la regulación del estado de ánimo de carácter crónico, curso recurrente, con diversas formas de presentación clínica, las cuales en algunos casos pueden llegar a ser graves. Las descompensaciones agudas de estos trastornos pueden …