Bipolar affective disorder
Caregiver strain and symptoms of depression among principal caregivers of patients with schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder in Sri Lanka
... and bipolar affective disorder is surprisingly sparse in the international indexing services but the conclusions from existing studies show this phenomenon to be of significant importance ...
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Cognitive Impairment in Euthymic Bipolar Affective Disorder Patients
... The present study revealed that there is statistically significant cognitive imapairment in bipolar affective disorder patients who are in remission compared to healthy controls who are matched to ...
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Neurocognitive function and Quality of life in patients with clinically stable Schizophrenia and Euthymic Bipolar Affective Disorder
... and bipolar affective disorder which is persistent even during the remission ...and bipolar affective disorder during clinically stable ...
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REVIEW ARTICLE Treatment of the depressive phase of bipolar affective disorder: a review
... of bipolar affective disorder, there have been significant advances in the management of the depressive ...of bipolar depression, then this strategy should be employed in conjunction with mood ...
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Exploring the role of therapeutic drug monitoring and regular supervision in optimizing quality of life in patients of bipolar affective disorder receiving lithium therapy in a tertiary care teaching hospital: a prospective observational study
... term treatment of patients with bipolar affective disorder. Of the mood stabilizers, the most widely and efficaciously used is lithium salt. Lithium is the first and foremost option for the starting ...
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Influence of valproate on the required dose of propofol for anesthesia during electroconvulsive therapy of bipolar affective disorder patients
... This was a retrospective study without patient randomization to the valproate or valproate-free groups. Since the sample size was small, the capacity of the study to demonstrate the differences between the two groups may ...
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Quality of Life and Explanatory Models in patients with Bipolar Affective Disorder
... Bipolar disorder is a chronic and debilitating illness. It leads to significant morbidity and is responsible for a large proportion of the global burden of mental illness. Traditionally, studies have ...
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Proton MR Spectroscopy in Children with Bipolar Affective Disorder: Preliminary Observations
... All parents completed the Children’s Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (K-SADS), the Mania Rating Scale, and a structured family history. In all cases, the diag- nosis of BPAD was based on the ...
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The characteristics and health needs of pregnant women with schizophrenia compared with bipolar disorder and affective psychoses
... and affective SMI, including bipolar affective disorder & manic episodes, psychotic depression and history of postpartum ...fective disorder are closer to schizophrenia, whereas ...
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A study on coping skills of caregivers of patients with bipolar disorder
... Results: Around 63.4% of the caregivers were males, 38.5% were illiterate, 44.2% were unskilled labourers, 57.6% were spouses, mean BAS score was 86.03, mean coping score was 55.77 and BAS was inversely related to PGWBI. ...
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Impact of insight recovery on the course of BPAD patients: A six months prospective study
... Bipolar Affective Disorder is common and disabling disorder 1 and is associated with considerable ...mood disorder that is characterized by episodes of depression (feelings of sadness, ...
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Mental Disordersand Suicide
... with bipolar affective disorder (50%) [14] Could be reduced by maintenance drug treatment and adequate treatment of depression and co morbid alcohol and drug abuse ...with bipolar disorders ...
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Revisiting the role of therapeutic drug monitoring in optimizing treatment outcomes in patients of bipolar affective disorders receiving lithium therapy: a prospective observational study
... stable bipolar affective disorder patients on lithium therapy attending the psychiatric outpatients department of a tertiary care teaching hospital were followed up for up to 3 visits for a period of ...
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Reasons for lithium discontinuation in men and women with bipolar disorder: a retrospective cohort study
... With the mortality gap between individuals with bipolar affective disorder and the general population widening [33], we need to understand why patients and doctors discontinue lithium. It is ...
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A cross sectional study to assess the prevalence and severity of anxiety, depression and stigma in female patients with primary infertility in a tertiary care hospital
... Bipolar affective disorder is a serious mental disorder characterized by fluctuating “poles” of mood - depressive and manic symptoms with inter- episodic period of near normal ...The ...
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Quality of life of caregivers of patients diagnosed with severe mental illness at the national referral hospitals in Uganda
... The study population comprised caregivers of patients diagnosed with severe mental illness including Schizophrenia, Bipolar Affective Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder who were atte[r] ...
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Cardiovascular disease treatment among patients with severe mental illness : a data linkage study between primary and secondary care
... Case Register Interactive Search (CRIS). Diagnostic codes for any primary or secondary diagnosis of schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, and schizoaffective disorder or other non-organic ...
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A Collage Impulse of Psychological Crippling to Multiplet Surviving In PreetiShenoy’s Novel Life Is What You Make IT
... The paper explores the two counterparts of suffering and survival in the life of Ankita. And also applies the theory of Humanism on the psyche of people affected by bipolar disorder, family suppression, the ...
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Bipolar disorder
... of bipolar disorder is predominately affective, cognitive and ...with bipolar disorder who have frequent relapses often engage in striving behaviour to “make up for lost ...
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Carpenter_unc_0153D_17659.pdf
... Another factor contributing to their use is that randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been conducted in this age group and show they are superior to valproic acid and lithium in treating mania in this population ...
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