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rapid cycling
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Risk Factors
July 3, 2023
Early Antidepressant Use is Associated with Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder
Highlights from Posters Presented at the Society of Biological Psychiatry Meeting, April 27-29, 2023 in San Diego -- A.C. Courtes and Jair Soares reported that “Antidepressants were prescribed as the first psychiatry medic...
Childhood
November 9, 2015
Link Between Childhood Trauma and Difficult Course of Bipolar Disorder Clarified
A collaboration between Norwegian and French researchers led by Bruno Etain has clarified the pathway by which childhood trauma is linked to worse outcomes among people with bipolar disorder. The researchers, who presented...
Risk Factors
February 17, 2012
Sleep Apnea Common Among Rapid Cyclers
CPAP treatment for sleep apnea -- Kellen and colleagues presented a poster at the 9th International Conference on Bipolar Disorder (ICBD) held in Pittsburgh in 2011, in which they reported that 21% of patients with rapid c...
Public Policy
January 13, 2011
Bipolar Disorder Worse in US than Europe
New research shows that there are more early onsets of illness and more difficult courses of bipolar illness in the US than in the Netherlands or Germany. -- This editor was invited to give a plenary presentation at the 4t...