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<title>Treatment differences between elderly and younger bipolar patients revealed</title>
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<title>Serum neurotrophin-4/5 levels raised in bipolar I disorder</title>
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<title>Child bipolar I disorder persists into adulthood</title>
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<title>Bipolar disorder in emergency settings predicted by DMX</title>
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<title>Axis II personality disorders common in bipolar disorder</title>
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<title>Reduced pain perception in schizophrenia linked to abnormal excitation</title>
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<title>Circadian clock gene influences bipolar disorder onset age</title>
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<title>Neurocognitive function declines in early-onset schizophrenia</title>
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<title>Good quality bipolar disorder information available online</title>
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<title>Time in psychoeducation predicts success among schizophrenia relatives</title>
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<title>Depression, extrapyramidal symptoms predict subjective QoL in schizophrenia</title>
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<title>White matter defects may underlie cognition in schizophrenia </title>
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<title>Adjunctive psychotherapy improves bipolar disorder outcomes</title>
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<title>Family-focused therapy stabilizes bipolar depressive symptoms</title>
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<title>Antidepressants 'no added benefit' in bipolar disorder</title>
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<title>Advancing paternal age risks bipolar disorder</title>
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<title>Most postpartum depression masks bipolar spectrum disorders</title>
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<title>Lipid and insulin not disturbed in adolescents at risk of psychosis</title>
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<title>Cerebellar dysfunction may point to increased bipolar disorder risk</title>
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<title>Cannabis and alcohol selectively, temporally tied to manic and depressive episodes</title>
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<description>Researchers investigate the temporal relationship between acute bipolar disorder episodes and comorbid substance abuse.</description>
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<title>Acute stress of war during prenatal development linked to schizophrenia </title>
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<title>Subclinical deficit schizophrenia features linked to summer births</title>
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<title>Schizophrenia immunological underpinnings supported</title>
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<title>Novel scale reliably assesses negative schizophrenia symptoms</title>
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<title>Improvements in mania faster with bifrontal than bitemporal ECT</title>
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<description>Comparing bifrontal and bitemporal electroconvulsive therapy for acute mania in bipolar disorder.</description>
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<title>Depression in bipolar disorder linked to reduced work productivity</title>
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<description>Researchers aim to examine the relationship between mood symptoms in bipolar disorder and work productivity.</description>
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<title>Brain lipid profile altered in bipolar disorder</title>
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<title>Subsyndromal depression affects functioning in bipolar disorder</title>
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<description>Researchers examine how subclinical depression affects functioning in patients with bipolar disorder.</description>
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<title>Sleep disturbances affect symptom course in bipolar disorder</title>
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<title>Serotonin receptor variations impact on schizophrenia trait markers</title>
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<description>Scientists examine whether genetic variations in the serotonin receptor affect behavioural features of schizophrenia.</description>
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<title>Negative symptoms linked to reduced alcohol use </title>
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<title>Burden of medical illness worsens with bipolar disorder duration</title>
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<title>Abnormal excitation may underlie reduced pain sensation in schizophrenia</title>
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<title>Maternal separation results in schizotypal symptoms later in life</title>
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<title>Gene variants may predispose to mixed psychosis and mania</title>
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<title>Evidence for CAM usage in bipolar disorder examined </title>
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<description>Researchers examine the evidence for the use of complementary and alternative medicine therapies for treating bipolar disorder</description>
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<title>Early adolescence cannabis exposure causes psychotogenic effects</title>
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<title>Communication abnormalities linked to schizophrenia social outcomes</title>
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<title>Bipolarity 'does not influence risk for suicidal behavior'</title>
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<title>Vocational support improves first-episode psychosis outcomes</title>
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<title>Impaired cortisol response linked to illness course in male schizophrenia</title>
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<title>Family conflict mediates parental mood disorders-child bipolar link</title>
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<title>Pediatric bipolar phenotype increases risk of wide range of disorders</title>
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<title>Negative life events remain an issue in later bipolar disorder</title>
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<title>Benefits of intensive early intervention for first-episode psychosis not long-term</title>
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<title>Attribution style in schizophrenia linked to symptom severity</title>
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<title>Schizophrenia outcomes 'not as poor as previously assumed'</title>
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<title>Pre-psychosis signs and symptoms affect later diagnosis</title>
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<title>Misunderstanding over research studies prevalent in bipolar disorder</title>
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<title>Disrupted neuregulin signaling underlies symptoms of schizophrenia</title>
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<title>Caution urged when applying bipolar spectrum model to patients</title>
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<description>Investigating the action of a glucocorticoid receptor modulator in a mouse model of bipolar disorder</description>
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<title>Peer support groups reduce emotional, social isolation in schizophrenia</title>
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<title>Mania relatively common in Turkish prepubertal children</title>
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<title>Long-term response to antipsychotics predicted by initial response</title>
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<title>Ketamine-MRI study sheds light on schizophrenia symptom profile</title>
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<title>White matter abnormalities detected in bipolar disorder patients</title>
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<title>Prefrontal deficits in schizophrenia patients linked to social cognition</title>
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<title>MRI defects of ADHD and bipolar disorder overlap in comorbid patients</title>
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<title>Executive dysfunction in bipolar disorder 'mediated by mood state'</title>
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<title>Dopamine transmission altered in first-episode schizophrenia</title>
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<title>Altered gestalt processing is a core stage marker in schizophrenia</title>
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<title>PTSD common and clinically significant in bipolar disorder patients</title>
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<title>Mental health disorders linked to substantial societal-level loss of earnings</title>
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<title>Depression in individuals at risk of schizophrenia linked to hypofrontality</title>
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<title>Bipolar disorder patients show heterogeneous cognitive impairment</title>
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<title>Abnormal neurotrophic factor signaling underlies chronic schizophrenia</title>
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<title>Substance abuse and smoking greatly increased in adolescent bipolar disorder</title>
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<title>Shortening duration of untreated psychosis improves negative symptoms</title>
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<title>Rare spontaneous gene mutations detected in sporadic schizophrenia</title>
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<description>Investigators explore the possibility that rare de novo copy number mutations with relatively high penetrance contribute to the genetic component of schizophrenia.</description>
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<title>Mood self-report tool discerns bipolar and unipolar disorder</title>
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<title>Cognitive therapy does not prevent relapse in psychosis</title>
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<title>Cannabis use linked to adolescent prodromal symptoms of psychosis</title>
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<title>Reduced emotional clarity linked to increased hallucinations</title>
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<title>Gene variant linked to dopaminergic signaling and psychosis risk</title>
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<title>Corpus callosum abnormalities 'may have pediatric bipolar disorder role'</title>
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<description>Comparing the callosal signal intensity of children and adolescents with bipolar disorder to that of their mentally healthy peers.</description>
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<title>Subgenual cingulate defects not an endophenotype of bipolar disorder</title>
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<title>Social functioning associated with cognitive ability in older schizophrenics</title>
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<title>Predictors of cognitive deficits in early psychosis identified</title>
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<title>Comorbid Cluster B personality disorder linked to bipolar suicidality</title>
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<title>CBT shows early first-episode recovery promise</title>
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<title>Caregiver psychoeducation reduces bipolar disorder relapse</title>
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<description>Assessing the efficacy of a psychoeducational group intervention focused on caregivers of euthymic bipolar patients.</description>
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<title>Tertiary care bipolar disorder data applicable to primary care</title>
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<description>Researchers examine clinical and demographic factors associated with bipolar rapid cycling in both primary and tertiary care treated populations.</description>
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<title>Substance use in bipolar disorder associated with 'profound hazards'</title>
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<description>Exploring the prevalence and correlates of substance use disorders in a large sample of adolescents with bipolar disorder.</description>
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<title>Schizophrenia increases stroke risk in young people</title>
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<title>Neglect of physical health in severe mental illness needs to be addressed</title>
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<title>Little impact on DUP with community early psychosis detection program</title>
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<title>Family socioeconomic status associated with schizophrenia subtype</title>
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<title>Social and neurocognition separate domains in psychosis</title>
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<title>Molecular profile overlaps in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder</title>
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<title>Migraine associated with psychiatric disorders</title>
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<title>Deficits specific to PTSD in schizophrenia uncovered</title>
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<title>Bipolar and unipolar depressive symptoms are clinically distinct</title>
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<title>Self-report software accurately records manic symptoms </title>
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<title>Migraine and temperament linked to handedness in major affective disorder</title>
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<title>Individual characteristics affect the experience of stress in schizophrenia</title>
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<title>Emotions and affective lability increased in euthymic bipolar patients</title>
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<title>Doctors may be missing bipolar disorder in autism spectrum patients</title>
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<title>Differences between schizophrenic and depressive suicide attempts revealed </title>
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<title>Subjective quality of life reduced in individuals at risk for psychosis</title>
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<description>Assessing quality of life and potential contributing factors in psychotic individuals putatively in an early or late initial prodromal state compared with mentally healthy individuals.</description>
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<title>Subaffective temperaments in bipolar relatives affect quality of life</title>
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<description>Examining the prevalence of affective temperaments in clinically unaffected relatives of bipolar patients and the impact of these subaffective forms on their quality of life.</description>
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<title>Schizo-obsessive adolescents similar to adult counterparts</title>
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<title>Evidence for schizoaffective spectrum revealed</title>
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<title>Bipolar aggressive and suicidal symptoms more common in summer</title>
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<description>Investigating the existence of a seasonal distribution of three dimensions of mania, psychosis, aggression and suicidality, during psychiatric hospitalizations, and correlating these findings with local climatic variables.</description>
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<title>Age-at-onset subgroups in bipolar I disorder patients identified</title>
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<description>Investigators study age at onset of bipolar I disorder in a homogenous genetic population to assess the presence of different subgroups.</description>
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<title>Social cognitive performance varies in early psychosis</title>
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<title>Olfactory defects not an endophentype in schizotypy</title>
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<description>Exploring whether deficits in olfaction, which are common in patients with schizophrenia, are also associated with schizotypy.</description>
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<title>Functional impairments predict bipolar disease course</title>
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<description>Evaluating functional impairment as a predictor of mood symptoms in patients with bipolar disorder.</description>
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<title>Endophenotypes for neurocognitive function in bipolar I disorder uncovered</title>
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<description>Examining neurocognitive function in individuals with bipolar I disorder, their first-degree relatives, and a mentally healthy control group.</description>
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<title>Early childhood maternal separation predicts later schizophrenia symptoms</title>
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<description>Researchers determine whether early maternal separation predicts the subsequent development of schizotypal personality disorder symptoms.</description>
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<title>Bipolar II patients spend more time depressed than bipolar I patients</title>
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<description>Investigating whether the course of bipolar disorder type II is more depressive than that of bipolar disorder type I.</description>
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<title>Residual bipolar symptoms raise relapse risk</title>
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<description>Determine whether the presence of subsyndromal residual symptoms during recovery from major affective episodes in bipolar disorder impacts on episode recurrence.</description>
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<title>Poor bipolar disorder treatment insight predicts adverse clinical outcomes</title>
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<description>Examining the impact of insight on adverse clinical outcomes among patients with bipolar I disorder over a 2-year period.</description>
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<title>Nicotine effects on attention network function in schizophrenia explored</title>
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<description>Investigators explore the role of nicotine in cognitive disturbance associated with schizophrenia.</description>
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<title>Mania symptoms of bipolar disorder classified as four subclusters</title>
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<description>Researchers aim to further elucidate the symptom structure of manic states.</description>
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<title>Lack of information on SPID treatment and outcomes</title>
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<description>Critical examination of the DSM-IV-TR criteria for substance-induced psychotic disorder.</description>
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<title>Cognitive therapy benefits old and severely impaired schizophrenia patients</title>
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<description>Examining whether the addition of cognitive behavioral social skills training to standard pharmacologic care benefits schizophrenia patients.</description>
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<title>Specific early anomalies and impairments linked to schizophrenia</title>
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<description>Researchers examine the relationship of congenital anomalies and related functional impairments in infancy to risk for schizophrenia.</description>
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<title>Remitted mood disorder patients display subsyndromal symptoms</title>
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<title>Parent-child relationship difficulties worsen pediatric bipolar disorder</title>
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<description>Investigators characterize maternal reports of parent-child relationships using the five-factor Parent-Child Relationship Questionnaire in 60 families with bipolar disorder children.</description>
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<title>Gray matter loss increased in cannabis-using schizophrenia patients</title>
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<title>Cancer risk increased in bipolar disorder</title>
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<description>Investigating the risk for cancer among psychiatric inpatients diagnosed with bipolar disorder.</description>
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<title>BARS useful for adherence monitoring in schizophrenia outpatients</title>
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<description>Exploring the reliability and validity of a recently developed, brief, pencil-paper, clinician-administered adherence instrument to assess the oral antipsychotic medication adherence of outpatients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.</description>
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<title>Validity of schizophrenia risk assessment confirmed</title>
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<description>Researchers explore whether schizophrenia patients show abnormalities on scales measuring psychosis proneness.</description>
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<title>Psychosocial therapy for schizophrenia 'needs targeting to individuals'</title>
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<description>Reviewers identify the major psychosocial therapeutic strategies that have been used effectively in patients with schizophrenia with a focus on their use for improving medication adherence.</description>
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<title>PCNT2 levels may play bipolar disorder role</title>
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<title>Low SOD activity in bipolar disorder points to oxidative imbalance</title>
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<title>IPS effective for severe mental health patient employment</title>
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<title>Attitudes toward medication in schizophrenia patients explored</title>
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<title>Verbal fluency distinguishes euthymic bipolar patients</title>
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<title>P50 gating deficits in schizophrenia and euthymic bipolar disorder</title>
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<title>MBCT shows bipolar anxiety promise</title>
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<description>Investigators explore the feasibility and potential benefits of a mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for people with bipolar disorder focusing on between-episode anxiety and depressive symptoms.</description>
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<title>EEG abnormal psychosis patients show persistent disease symptoms</title>
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<description>Assessing the relationship of electroencephalogram to several aspects of 3-year symptomatic and functional outcome in first-episode psychosis.</description>
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<title>Depression in acute schizophrenia unrelated to treatment outcomes</title>
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<description>Examine the relevance of depressive symptoms during an acute schizophrenic episode in the prediction of treatment response.</description>
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<title>Burden among schizophrenia caregivers explored</title>
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<description>Exploring family burden in relation to relatives' coping strategies and social networks, as well as in relation to the patients' severity of positive and negative symptoms.</description>
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<title>Self-harm common in first-episode, untreated psychosis</title>
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<description>Researchers explore the prevalence and nature of self-harm during the period of untreated first-episode psychosis.</description>
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<title>Facial emotion labeling deficits linked to bipolar risk</title>
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<title>Early-onset depression should be considered a bipolar spectrum subtype</title>
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<description>Determining whether a history of high depressive recurrence, without history of mania/hypomania, is a mood subtype close to bipolar disorders.</description>
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<title>Clinical implications of depressive polarity in bipolar disorder explored</title>
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<description>Exploring clinical differences between predominantly manic and depressed bipolar disorder patients with a special focus on the time that patients remained undiagnosed.</description>
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<title>Brain usage differences explain schizophrenia working memory deficits</title>
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<description>Investigating the neural correlates of remembering and forgetting in patients with schizophrenia and mentally healthy individuals.</description>
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<title>Bipolar rapid cycling 'part of recurrence continuum'</title>
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<description>Investigators examine the contributions of demographic, phenomenological, and clinical variables, including antidepressant use, to prospectively observed mood episode frequency.</description>
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<title>Vagus nerve stimulation effective for rapid-cycling bipolar disorder</title>
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<description>Investigating the efficacy of vagus nerve stimulation in a group of patients with treatment-resistant rapid-cycling bipolar disorder.</description>
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<title>Stimulant and antidepressant use not linked to juvenile bipolar I onset</title>
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<description>Examining the extent to which the initiation of stimulant and antidepressant medication is associated with the subsequent onset of juvenile bipolar I disorder.</description>
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<title>Psychosis history worsens euthymic bipolar cognitive performance</title>
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<description>Researchers ascertain whether a history of psychotic symptoms is associated with greater cognitive impairment in euthymic bipolar disorder patients.</description>
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<title>Metabolic abnormalities highly prevalent in bipolar disorders</title>
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<title>Effect of symptoms on schizophrenia functional capacity revealed</title>
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<description>Investigators evaluate the association between positive and negative symptoms, and the effect of neurocognition on functional status in patients with schizophrenia.</description>
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<title>Cognitive variables predict schizophrenia psychosocial functioning</title>
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<title>Trauma worsens bipolar disorder outcomes</title>
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<title>Schizophrenia sibling gray matter changes 'not intermediate phenotype'</title>
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<title>HCV infection risk raised in bipolar disorder with or without SUD</title>
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<title>Differential impact of neuropsychologic deficits on schizophrenia uncovered</title>
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<description>Examining different predictive relationships between neuropscyhological domains, functional and social competence, symptoms, and real-world behavior in patients with schizophrenia.</description>
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<title>Cortical thinning in schizophrenia unrelated to age or antipsychotics</title>
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<description>Researchers explore the cause, mechanism, and progression of morphological abnormalities of the cerebral cortex in patients with schizophrenia.</description>
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<title>Adolescent psychosis-related white matter changes identified</title>
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<title>Poor family environment linked to schizophrenia </title>
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<title>Plasma apoE levels reduced in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder</title>
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<title>Parental Type 2 diabetes common in schizophrenia patients</title>
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<title>More focus on mixed bipolar episodes urged</title>
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<description>Investigating the prevalence of mixed episodes during the course of illness in bipolar disorder.</description>
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<title>Gene variant linked to female schizophrenia</title>
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<title>Aggression prevalent in bipolar patients with personality disorders</title>
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<title>Similar clinical characteristics in high-risk schizophrenia and bipolar children</title>
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<description>Researchers look at the rates of DSM diagnoses in the young offspring of a schizophrenia parent and of a bipolar disorder parent who had an extremely loaded family history.</description>
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<title>Life skills predict schizophrenia quality of life</title>
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<title>Higher social class raises suicide risk in people at schizophrenia risk</title>
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<description>Determining whether there is a relationship between suicide and social class in patients with schizophrenia.</description>
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<title>Factors linked to undiagnosed bipolar disorder uncovered</title>
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<description>Investigators explore the demographic and clinical predictors of the absence of a clinical diagnosis of bipolar I and II disorders among psychiatric patients.</description>
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<title>Circadian rhythm defects found in euthymic bipolar patients</title>
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<description>Comparing circadian activity rhythms in patients with bipolar I disorder during ill and recovered states to those of mentally healthy individuals to see if some abnormalities persist.</description>
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<title>Bipolar I and II patients show different neurocognitive profiles</title>
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<description>A quarter of bipolar I disorder patients display clinically significant cognitive impairments over a wide range of measures from verbal memory to set-shifting, a study has shown</description>
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<title>Severe stress early in pregnancy raises schizophrenia risk</title>
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<description>Researchers explore the effect of antenatal maternal exposure to an objective measure of stress on risk of adverse neurodevelopment, specifically schizophrenia, in offspring.</description>
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<title>Evidence backs up movement abnormality-schizophrenia neural link</title>
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<description>Examining the progression of movement abnormalities in relation to positive and negative symptoms in adolescents at high risk for developing psychotic disorders.</description>
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<title>Dual diagnosis programs benefit depressed and bipolar alcoholics</title>
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<description>Testing the benefits of an inpatient treatment program to treat dual diagnosis clients with alcohol dependence and either unipolar or bipolar affective disorder.</description>
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<title>Differential impact of comorbidities on bipolar disorder patients explored</title>
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<description>Study findings provide clarification on whether comorbid substance use disorders in bipolar I disorder are more prevalent among persons with versus without comorbid anxiety disorders.</description>
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<title>Childhood onset bipolar disorder more prevalent in US than Europe</title>
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<title>BDNF levels reduced in euthymic patients with affective disorders</title>
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<description>Assessing whether changes in circulating brain-derived neurotrophic factor occur in patients with bipolar II disorder as well as those with unipolar depression and bipolar I disorder.</description>
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<title>Suicidality and accidents in early bipolar I disorder explored</title>
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<description>Exploring differences in risks and associated demographic and clinical factors among bipolar I disorder patients with and without suicidal ideation and who have and have not experienced accidents.</description>
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<title>Schizophrenia patients willing to engage in weight loss treatment</title>
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<description>Determining the accuracy of body image perception and preferred weight loss strategies in patients with schizophrenia.</description>
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<title>Medium-term schizophrenia benefits with CBT justify cost</title>
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<description>Researchers assess the medium-term durability of cognitive behavioral therapy in patients with schizophrenia.</description>
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<title>Impulsivity differentially linked to mania and depression in bipolar disorder</title>
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<title>Illicit stimulant use especially prevalent in psychotic patients</title>
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<description>Study findings provide prevalence estimates for illicit drug use in patients with psychotic disorders.</description>
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<title>Genetic basis for postpartum mood symptoms in bipolar women uncovered</title>
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<description>Investigators study whether postpartum mood symptoms and depressive episodes exhibit familial aggregation in bipolar I pedigrees.</description>
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<title>White matter lesions linked to schizophrenia symptoms</title>
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<title>Value of retrospective parental checklists in bipolar diagnosis questioned</title>
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<description>Exploring the relationship between prodromal symptoms in pediatric bipolar disorder and the diagnosis of bipolar disorder.</description>
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<title>Psychosis rate high in young bipolar I disorder children</title>
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<description>Study findings provide clues to the occurrence of psychotic phenomena in children with bipolar I disorder.</description>
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<title>Panic disorder comorbidity a severe bipolar I disorder subgroup</title>
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<description>Researchers explore demographic, clinical, and treatment features in a group of patients with bipolar I disorder and comorbid panic disorder.</description>
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<title>Modified HDRS is best measure of depression in complex bipolar disorder</title>
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<description>Investigators examine a modified version of the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale among treatment-seeking patients with co-occurring bipolar disorder and substance dependence to determine key features of depression in this group of patients.</description>
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<title>Ethnic density in neighborhoods affects psychosis incidence</title>
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<title>Substance use disorder incidence in mood disorders explored</title>
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<title>Common factors for schizophrenia suicide and other suicides found</title>
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