Sentences with phrase «in bipolar patients»

These studies have involved looking for genetic mutations that are statistically more common in bipolar patients.

Efficacy of aripiprazole versus placebo as adjuncts to lithium or valproate in relapse prevention of manic or mixed episodes in bipolar I patients stratified by index manic or mixed episode

Low levels of cortisol in bipolar patients were also associated with depression, low quality of life, obesity, dyslipidaemia and metabolic syndrome.

Cerebellar blood volume in bipolar patients correlates with medication.

Lithium can be hard on the body, the study authors said, increasing a person's risk of kidney and thyroid disease, but even that may have a positive side in bipolar patients.

While fish oil has been shown to prevent relapse and alleviate depressive symptoms in some bipolar patients, it appears to have no effect on the manic episodes associated with the condition.

Frederick K. Goodwin, MD, a research professor at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, says the current anxieties about the economy are exacerbated in bipolar patients.

Background Studies on individual psychotherapy indicate that some interventions may reduce the number of recurrences in bipolar patients.

Lithium, once a treatment for gout, is now widely used to treat manic episodes in bipolar patients.

Studies on individual psychotherapy indicate that some interventions may reduce the number of recurrences in bipolar patients.