Bipolar disorder (BD) is a chronic, recurrent, disabling disease, even when given currently-
available pharmacological and psychological treatments. Currently, the etiology and …

Compared to patients with depressive disorders, those with bipolar disorders have a more
complex clinical presentation and course, a greater risk for treatment non-response, a …

Recently, the 9th International Conference on Bipolar Disorder (ICBD) took place in
Pittsburgh, PA, June 9–11, 2011. The conference focused on a number of important issues …

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a severe mental illness, with significant morbidity, and is a leading
cause of disability. There have been significant advancements in the biological …

The biological bases of bipolar disorder include aspects related, among others, to
neurohormonal pathways, neurotransmission, signal transduction, regulation of gene …

Background Studies in bipolar disorder (BD) to date are limited in their ability to provide a
whole-disease perspective-their scope has generally been confined to a single disease …

Bipolar disorder is an important psychiatric disorder with different disease phases. The
pharmacological treatment is complicated, and is updated frequently as new research …

Bipolar disorder (BD) is one of the most serious psychiatric disorders. The rates of disability,
the risk of suicide attempts and their high lethality, as well as frequent and severe psychiatric …

In this study, we examined the point prevalence rate of atypical features in bipolar disorder,
and estimated the potential impact of these features on treatment practices in China. Using …

Bipolar disorder is currently a clinical syndrome, as the present state of evidence is
insufficient to allow its characterization based on etiology or pathophysiology. Despite this …