Reliability and convergent validity of retrospective reports of childhood maltreatment by individuals with bipolar disorder - Hosang GM, Manoli A, Shakoor S, Fisher HL, Parker C.
This study exa... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Private Equity ’s Crafty Lawyers Offer Universal Lessons
As ultra-cheap money drove a manic hunt for yield, debt investors competing for a piece of new deals accepted ever-weaker safeguards in loan contracts. These are the covenants and secure claims to collateral that help lenders recover their money when overleveraged businesses get into trouble. Now…#kirklandellis #jcrew #warrenbuffett #lloydsoflondon (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Risk of childhood trauma exposure and severity of bipolar disorder in Colombia - Guillen-Burgos H, Moreno-Lopez S, Acevedo-Vergara K, P érez-Florez M, Pachón-Garcia C, Gálvez-Flórez JF.
BACKGROUND: Bipolar disorder (BD) is higher in developing countries. Childhood trauma exposure is a common environmental risk factor in Colombia and might be associated with a more severe course of bipolar disorder in Low-Middle Income-Countries. We carrie... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Comment on Can optical coherence tomography findings be related with suicide attempt in bipolar disorder Correspondence - Kumar Panigrahi DP.
[The publisher has not provided an abstract for this article.] Language: en... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Testosterone and suicidal behavior in bipolar disorder - Sher L.
Bipolar disorder is associated with suicidal behavior. The risk of suicide for individuals with bipolar disorder is up to 20-30 times larger than that of the general population. Considerable evidence suggests that testosterone may play a role in the pathop... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

What it feels like when your mental health condition becomes a punchline:'It actually drives people further into hiding '
You may sometimes make what you think is a light-hearted joke about mental health conditions like saying someone is "acting bipolar," or claiming you have OCD, simply because you like to keep things tidy. But if you don't actually have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or bipolar disorder (BPD),…#bpd #carolamathews #centerforocd #universityofflorida #mathews #gabehoward #insidementalhealth #mentalillness (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Bright Light Therapy Boosts Response in Bipolar Depression Bright Light Therapy Boosts Response in Bipolar Depression
Bright light therapy combined with antidepressants is associated with significant relief of depressive symptoms, a new pilot study shows.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - February 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news

Mathematical modeling of risk-taking in bipolar disorder: evidence of reduced behavioral consistency, with altered loss aversion specific to those with history of substance use disorder - Lasagna CA, Pleskac TJ, Burton CZ, McInnis MG, Taylor SF, Tso IF.
Bipolar disorder (BD) is associated with excessive pleasure-seeking risk-taking behaviors that often characterize its clinical presentation. However, the mechanisms of risk-taking behavior are not well-understood in BD. Recent data suggest prior substance ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Associations between exposure to early childhood adversities and middle childhood psychotic experiences in children at familial high risk of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and population-based controls: the Danish high risk and resilience study - VIA 7 and VIA 11 - Brandt JM, Gregersen M, S øndergaard A, Krantz MF, Knudsen CB, Andreassen AK, Veddum L, Ohland J, Hjorthøj C, Wilms M, Rohd SB, Greve A, Burton BK, Bliksted V, Mors O, Nordentoft M, Thorup AAE, Hemager N.
BACKGROUND: Exposure to adversities in early childhood is associated with psychotic experiences and disorders in adulthood. We aimed to examine whether early childhood adversities are associated with middle childhood psychotic experiences in a cohort of ch... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Are bipolar disorder, major depression, and suicidality linked with Toxoplasma gondii? A seromolecular case-control study - Demirel F, Akg ül, Bulu E, Tanriöver Aydin E, Uysal Cesur N, Aksoy Poyraz C, Oner YA.
OBJECTIVE: The existence of predisposing effects of latent Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) infection in bipolar disorder (BD), major depression (MD), and even suicide attempt (SA) has long been debatable. This conjecture remains unclear because there is a la... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Psychiatric comorbidity in individuals with bipolar disorder: relation with clinical outcomes and functioning - L éda-Rego G, Studart-Bottó P, Sarmento S, Cerqueira-Silva T, Bezerra-Filho S, Miranda-Scippa.
The aim was to assess the lifetime prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity (PC) in Brazilian euthymic individuals with bipolar disorder type I, and investigate its effects on clinical outcomes and functioning. A group of 179 outpatients with BD-I in the recu... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news

B.C. woman says 'door is shut in our faces' as she fights for sister's mental health care
For the past 13 years, Kala Hooker has tried every legal option to be involved in the care of her sister Kora-lea, who has bipolar disorder and has been in and out of hospitals and treatment centres across B.C., Alberta, the U.S., Haiti and Jamaica. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - February 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news

Financial Crime: Death and deceit in Malibu: How yogi couple befriended and stole millions from vulnerable rich doctor
The tragic end of Dr. Mark Sawusch’s life all started in an ice cream shop in Venice Beach. On June 23, 2017, Sawusch — a brilliant, but troubled ophthalmologist who struggled with bipolar disorder — met Anton David and Anna Moore. It was a fateful encounter that would eventually lead to his death…#marksawuschs #venicebeach #antondavid #annamoore #anthonyflores #fresno #sawuschstesla #northerncalifornia #moore #sawusch (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Anticipating unipolar depression and bipolar depression in young adult with first episode of depression using childhood trauma and personality - Liu J, Wang Y, Wilson A, Chen H, Liu P, Chen X, Tang H, Luo C, Tian Y, Wang X, Cao X, Zhou J.
OBJECTIVE: Relevant research focusing on young adults with Unipolar Depression (UD) and Bipolar Depression (BD) is limited. The current research aims to investigate childhood trauma and personality traits in young adults with UD and BD. METHODS: Tw... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Subjective response to alcohol in young adults with bipolar disorder and recent alcohol use: a within-subject randomized placebo-controlled alcohol administration study - Lippard ETC, Kirsch DE, Kosted R, Le V, Almeida JRC, Fromme K, Strakowski SM.
This study used a randomized, placebo-controlled, cr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Young Adults Source Type: news