OBJECTIVE: This review examines whether borderline personality disorder (BPD) should be
considered part of the bipolar spectrum. METHODS: A literature review examined studies of …

Psychosocial stress plays an important role at multiple junctures in the onset and course of
bipolar disorder. Childhood adversity may be a risk factor for vulnerability to early onset …

BACKGROUND: Diminished suppression of the P50 response, a consistent finding in
schizophrenia, has also been reported in patients with psychotic bipolar disorder. It is a …

I examine evidence that the signaling molecule norepinephrine (NE) is an etiological factor
in some types of cancer. In support of this hypothesis, I cite the following 7 lines of …

Many challenging ethical questions come with the scientific efforts to understand the nature
and treatment of schizophrenia. The empirical study of ethical aspects of schizophrenia …

Substantial evidence implicates abnormalities of intracellular calcium (Ca2+) dynamics in
the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder (BD). However, the precise mechanisms underlying …

Background The assessment and treatment psychiatric disorders among individuals with
developmental disorders is in a state of flux. Clinicians working in this field confront two …

The purpose of this study is to illustrate the clinical usefulness of a computerized
neuropsychological battery for identifying neurocognitive deficits in adults with bipolar …

We have recently shown that the gene BRD1 is associated with schizophrenia and bipolar
affective disorder and that the BRD1 protein (BRD1) which is expressed in neurons may …

BACKGROUND: Specific symptom dimensions have been used to establish phenotypic
subgroups in recent genetic studies of bipolar disorder. In preparation for a genetic linkage …