Biploar Animations – Treatment Animations

Shedding Light On How Psychiatric Risk Gene Disrupts Brain Development
Scientists are making progress towards a better understanding of the neuropathology associated with debilitating psychiatric illnesses like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. New research, published by Cell Press in the July 15 issue of the journal Neuron, reveals mechanisms that connect a known psychiatric risk gene to disruptions in brain cell proliferation and migration during development...

Psychiatrist Calls For More Research Into Combination Treatments
Better treatment for people with bipolar disease and other mental illnesses is likely to come from properly tested combinations of existing therapies, according to leading psychiatry researcher Professor John Geddes...

Single MRI Scan 'Could Help Diagnose Bipolar Disorder'
A single MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan may soon help hundreds of thousands of people with bipolar disorder to get a faster, more accurate - and possibly life-saving - diagnosis, a leading researcher reported at the Royal College of Psychiatrists' International Congress...

MSU Researcher Identifies Links Between Hypertension, Bipolar Disorders
Nearly half of patients hospitalized with bipolar disorder may suffer from hypertension, and the younger a person is diagnosed with the psychiatric condition the more likely they are to develop high blood pressure, according to a recent Michigan State University study...

California Full-Service Partnership Program Is Cost Effective
Full-Service Partnerships (FSPs) are designed to do 'whatever it takes' to improve residential stability and mental health outcomes for homeless persons with serious mental illness. They are the cornerstone of California's Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) - one of the largest mental health policy experiments in recent history...

Lithium Therapy Improvement By Reduction Of Its Toxicity
Lithium is the most effective treatment for bipolar disorder. However, its use is limited because of neurological side effects and a risk for overdose-induced toxicity. Many of the beneficial effects of lithium are mediated by its inhibition of GSK-3 proteins, but whether this is the mechanism underlying its negative effects has not been determined...

Risk/Benefit Analysis: Potential Drug Target Has Key Role In The Heart
Inhibitors of GSK-3 proteins are being developed as potential therapeutics for numerous conditions, including bipolar disorder, Alzheimer disease, and diabetes...

What Is Schizoaffective Disorder? What Causes Schizoaffective Disorder?
Schizoaffective disorder is characterized by a combination of schizophrenia and affective (mood) disorder symptoms - there is disagreement on whether it is a type of mood disorder or schizophrenia. However, most health care professionals (clinicians) agree it is mainly a form of schizophrenia; not all experts agree on whether it should be treated as a distinct disorder...

Revealing Lithium's Mode Of Action
Though it has been prescribed for over 50 years to treat bipolar disorder, there are still many questions regarding exactly how lithium works. However, in a study appearing in this month's Journal of Lipid Research, researchers have provided solid evidence that lithium reduces brain inflammation by adjusting the metabolism of the health-protective omega-3-fatty acid called DHA...

Possible Link Between Over-Diagnosis Of Bipolar Disorder And Disability Payments
A study from Rhode Island Hospital finds patients who were "over-diagnosed" with bipolar disorder were more likely to have received disability payments and for a longer period of time. The researchers propose a link between these unconfirmed cases of bipolar disorder and the receipt of the payments...

Children Currently Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder Need More Than The Proposed Diagnostic Change
Shifting children from the controversial diagnosis of bipolar disorder to one that more accurately reflects their symptoms will not by itself decrease the rate of psychopharmacologic treatment and is not enough to help troubled children flourish, according to a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at The Hastings Center, a bioethics research institut...

Seriously Mentally Ill Are Three Times More Likely To Be Imprisoned Than Hospitalized, Report Finds
USA Today: "On average, a seriously mentally ill person in the USA is three times more likely to be incarcerated than hospitalized, a report concludes today...

NAMI: Greater Research Is Needed For Mental Illness; Along With Federal Action To Offset State Mental Health Crisis And End Disability Backlog
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is calling on Congress for greater scientific research, mental health grants to offset massive state budget cuts and an end to a backlog in the processing of Social Security disability claims. NAMI Executive Director Michael J...

UNC's Patrick Sullivan Receives Grant For Genetics Study Of Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder
Patrick Sullivan, MD has received a 2010 Distinguished Investigator Award from NARSAD for a comparison of genetics in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. His project is one of 15 selected out of 170 proposals submitted by researchers worldwide. Each project will each receive $100,000 annually in support of one year of research. Sullivan, who is Ray M...

Double Success For Leading Cardiff Neuroscientists
Two Cardiff University academics, both leaders in different aspects of neuroscience research, have received one of the leading honours in medical science. Professor Alun Davies, of the University's School of Biosciences, and Professor Nick Craddock, of the School of Medicine, have been elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences...