Family history points to more severe bipolar disorder
A family history of mood disorders is associated with more severe symptoms at presentation and a poorer clinical course in patients with bipolar disorder, show findings from the STEP-BD study. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - January 2, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Resting-state connectivity and metabolism dissociated in schizophrenia
A neuroimaging study suggests that patients with schizophrenia have difficulty deactivating the default mode network, rather than having increased absolute metabolic activity. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - January 2, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Perinatal probiotic supplements do not prevent childhood asthma
There is insufficient evidence to support the use of probiotic supplements during pregnancy or infancy to prevent the development of asthma in infants, Canadian researchers report. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - December 30, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Treating depression fails to reverse cognitive deficits in bipolar disorder
Successful treatment of depression with total sleep deprivation does not improve neuropsychologic deficits in bipolar patients, despite improving clinical symptoms, Italian researchers report. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - December 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Asthma link to mood disorders strengthened
Results from a prospective study support a relationship between asthma in adolescence and future diagnosis of mood disorders. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - December 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Schizophrenia brain marker matches genetic risk
Polygenic risk for schizophrenia correlates with neural inefficiency in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - December 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Inflammatory burden increased in overweight bipolar disorder patients
Breakdown of the amino acid tryptophan is increased in euthymic, overweight individuals with bipolar disorder, show preliminary results from the BIPFAT study. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - December 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Further boost for copy number variant role in schizophrenia
A large study confirms that 11 previously identified copy number variants are likely associated with schizophrenia. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - December 20, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Shared genetic risk for bipolar disorder and BMI
Researchers have found a positive association in the heritability of bipolar disorder and body mass index, supporting the theory that there is some interaction in the genetic mechanisms underlying these two traits. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - December 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Neurocognitive abnormalities ‘fundamental’ to schizophrenia
Rare copy-number variants that confer a high risk for schizophrenia or autism are associated with impaired cognition in carriers without psychiatric disorders, researchers report in Nature. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - December 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Diet may not fully explain cardiometabolic problems in bipolar disorder
The diet of patients with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia seems to be no worse than that of mentally healthy people, a study suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - December 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Head injuries increase risk for psychiatric disorders
A Danish study of a large cohort of individuals who presented at hospital with head injuries has found that they were at increased risk for later developing schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and organic mental disorders. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - December 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Rich club disconnectivity may be ‘core’ schizophrenia feature
The impaired “rich club” connectivity observed in the brains of patients with schizophrenia is also present in their unaffected siblings, report researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - December 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Diabetes blamed for brain neurochemical abnormalities in bipolar disorder
Diabetes may underlie some of the neurochemical abnormalities observed in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - December 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Bipolar disorder patients hold contradictory self-associations
Symptomatic bipolar disorder patients have a marked discrepancy between their automatic and “thought-out” views of themselves, research suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - December 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
