Meditation is a family of ancient and contemporary contemplative mind-body practices that
can modulate psychological processes, awareness, and mental states. Over the last 40 …

Background Bipolar disorder (BD) is a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by changes
in mood that alternate between (hypo) mania or depression and mixed states, often …

Although specific risk factors for brain alterations in bipolar disorders (BD) are currently
unknown, obesity impacts the brain and is highly prevalent in BD. Gray matter correlates of …

Body mass index (BMI) is the most common metric used for the assessment of weight
variation. Despite some criticisms of its validity as measure of increased risk of morbidity and …

Multivariate techniques better fit the anatomy of complex neuropsychiatric disorders which
are characterized not by alterations in a single region, but rather by variations across …

Seasonal rhythms affect the immune system. Evidence supports the involvement of immuno-
inflammatory mechanisms in bipolar disorder (BD), with the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio …

Background Bipolar disorder (BD) is characterized by episodic mood dysregulation,
although a significant portion of patients suffer persistent cognitive impairment during …

High rates of metabolic risk factors contribute to premature mortality in patients with severe
mental disorders, but the molecular underpinnings of this association are largely unknown …

Objective Obesity is a disorder of excessive adiposity, typically assessed via the
anthropometric density measure of BMI. Numerous studies have implicated BMI with …

Background The St. Göran Bipolar Project (SBP) was launched as a longitudinal outpatient
study investigation. The overarching objective was to identify predictive factors associated …