Bipolar Disorder
Med/Psych Update
Lithium-associated hypercalcemia: Monitoring and management
Regular monitoring of calcium levels in patients receiving lithium can improve outcomes.
Opinion
Long-term behavioral follow-up of children exposed to mood stabilizers and antidepressants: A look forward
Both antidepressants and newer mood stabilizers have been shown to be safe in pregnancy.
From the Journals
Machine learning identifies childhood characteristics that predict bipolar disorder
With further development, the model could be used to identify at-risk children via electronic medical records, enabling earlier monitoring and...
Commentary
Lamotrigine for bipolar depression?
In reading Dr. Nasrallah's August 2022 editorial (“Reversing depression: A plethora of therapeutic strategies and mechanisms,” Current Psychiatry...
Conference Coverage
Bipolar risk and parental age: What’s the relationship?
“We must stress that this risk is moderate, and it must be kept in perspective,” said Dr. Giovanna Fico.
From the Journals
‘Disturbing’ lack of follow-up care after psychiatric crises
Patients who had received both primary care and mental health care before an acute event had the highest odds of receiving follow-up.
Commentary
Clinical psychoeconomics: Accounting for money matters in psychiatric assessment and treatment
Financial concerns often provoke emotional distress and dysfunctional behaviors, and directly influence patients’ health care decisions.
Shrink Rap News
The hunt for N-acetylcysteine: Medicine or dietary supplement?
NAC has caught the attention of psychiatrists because of claims that it may be useful in treating OCD, trichotillomania, and excoriation skin...
Pearls
Lithium, valproate, and suicide risk: Analysis of 98,831 cases
The current academic psychiatry paradigm reinforces that lithium reduces suicide risk, more so than other medications, including valproate.
Pearls
Preparing patients with serious mental illness for extreme HEAT
Climate change is causing intense heat waves that threaten human health across the globe.
Pearls
Lithium for bipolar disorder: Which patients will respond?
T hough Cade discovered it 70 years ago, lithium is still considered the gold standard treatment for preventing manic and depressive phases of...