A comparison of American and english hospital discharge rates for pediatric bipolar disorder, 2000 to 2010 by James, A, James, A, Hoang, U, Seagroatt, V, Clacey, J, Goldacre, M, Leibenluft, E

“…Method We used the English National Health Service (NHS) Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) dataset and the United States National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) to compare US and English discharge rates for PBD (bipolar I disorder [BP-I], bipolar II disorder [BP-II], bipolar disorder not otherwise specified [BP-NOS], and cyclothymia). …”

Treatment-resistant bipolar depression: a STEP-BD equipoise randomized effectiveness trial of antidepressant augmentation with lamotrigine, inositol, or risperidone. by Nierenberg, A, Ostacher, M, Calabrese, JR, Ketter, T, Marangell, L, Miklowitz, D, Miyahara, S, Bauer, MS, Thase, M, Wisniewski, SR, Sachs, G

“…METHOD: Participants (N=66) were patients with bipolar I or bipolar II disorder enrolled in the NIMH Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD). …”

A comparison of American and English hospital discharge rates for pediatric bipolar disorder, 2000 to 2010. by James, A, Hoang, U, Seagroatt, V, Clacey, J, Goldacre, M, Leibenluft, E

“…METHOD: We used the English National Health Service (NHS) Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) dataset and the United States National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) to compare US and English discharge rates for PBD (bipolar I disorder [BP-I], bipolar II disorder [BP-II], bipolar disorder not otherwise specified [BP-NOS], and cyclothymia). …”

The International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) task force report on antidepressant use in bipolar disorders. by Pacchiarotti, I, Bond, D, Baldessarini, R, Nolen, W, Grunze, H, Licht, R, Post, R, Berk, M, Goodwin, G, Sachs, G, Tondo, L, Findling, R, Youngstrom, E, Tohen, M, Undurraga, J, González-Pinto, A, Goldberg, J, Yildiz, A, Altshuler, L, Calabrese, JR, Mitchell, P, Thase, M, Koukopoulos, A, Colom, F, Frye, M

“…The frequency and severity of antidepressant-associated mood elevations appear to be greater in bipolar I than bipolar II disorder. Hence, in bipolar I patients antidepressants should be prescribed only as an adjunct to mood-stabilizing medications.…”

Correlates of long duration of untreated illness (DUI) in patients with bipolar disorder: results of an observational study by Gabriele Di Salvo, Giorgia Porceddu, Umberto Albert, Giuseppe Maina, Gianluca Rosso

“…The LogReg analysis confirmed the association of long DUI with bipolar II disorder (p: 0.016), lower age at onset (p < 0.001), depressive predominant polarity (p: 0.018), depressive polarity onset (p < 0.001), longer duration of illness (p < 0.001), lifetime suicide attempts (p: 0.045) and current medical comorbidities (p: 0.019). …”
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Long-term trajectory of cognitive performance in people with bipolar disorder and controls: 6-year longitudinal study by Timea Sparding, Erik Joas, Caitlin Clements, Carl M. Sellgren, Erik Pålsson, Mikael Landén

“…Method Patients with bipolar I disorder (n = 44) or bipolar II disorder (n = 28) and healthy controls (n = 59) were tested with a comprehensive cognitive test battery at baseline and retested after 6 years. …”
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Case report: Uncovering hidden glucose patterns in medicated versus unmedicated bipolar disorder and comorbid type 1 diabetes mellitus by Dagmar Breznoscakova, Dagmar Breznoscakova, Maria Pallayova, Maria Pallayova

“…The impact of various phases of bipolar disorder and their treatment on continuous glucose levels remains unexplored and calls for future assessments.Case presentationThe present case reports a 41-year-old Caucasian female with an established diagnosis of bipolar II disorder and type 1 diabetes mellitus who discontinued long-term mood-stabilizing pharmacotherapy with quetiapine. …”
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The role of affective temperaments in bipolar disorder: The solid role of the cyclothymic, the contentious role of the hyperthymic, and the neglected role of the irritable temperam... by Elie G. Karam, Dahlia Saab, Salam Jabbour, Georges E. Karam, Elie Hantouche, Jules Angst

“…The hyperthymic temperament had no role in bipolar I or bipolar II disorder. …”
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Classifying and clustering mood disorder patients using smartphone data from a feasibility study by Carsten Langholm, Scott Breitinger, Lucy Gray, Fernando Goes, Alex Walker, Ashley Xiong, Cindy Stopel, Peter Zandi, Mark A. Frye, John Torous

“…To examine the feasibility of smartphone-based phenotyping, two study sites (Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins University) recruited patients with bipolar I disorder (BPI), bipolar II disorder (BPII), major depressive disorder (MDD), and undiagnosed controls for a 12-week observational study. …”
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Differences in verbal and spatial working memory in patients with bipolar II and unipolar depression: an MSI study by Zhinan Li, Junhao Chen, Yigang Feng, Shuming Zhong, Shui Tian, Zhongpeng Dai, Qing Lu, Yufang Guan, Yanyan Shan, Yanbin Jia

“…Method According to diagnostic criteria of bipolar II disorder of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) and assessments, 13 bipolar II depression (BP II), 8 unipolar depression (UD) patients and 15 healthy controls (HC) were recruited in the study. …”
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Insight and self-esteem in patients with bipolar disorders by S. Hentati, M. Ben Abdallah, M. Daoud, I. Baati, R. Sallemi, I. Feki, J. Masmoudi

“…Results The average age of our patients was 44,52±12,99 years old.The sex ratio =0.32.Patients were followed for bipolar I disorder(60.6%).The first episode of the disease was depressive in(51.5%) of cases.The average number of depressive episodes was1.97±1.87.The last episode was depressive in(57.6%) or manic in(42.4%).There were no psychotic characteristics in(42.4%) of cases.The patients had good insight in(54.5%).The average of self-esteem score was27±7.85and it was low in 51.5% of cases.Factors correlated with good insight were bipolar II disorder(p=0.001), high number of depressive episodes(p=0.013) and absence of psychotic characteristics(p=0.003) during the last episode.In addition,good insight was significantly associated with low self-esteem(p=0.023). …”
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A Case of Ruminative Hypomania Induced by High Dose Venlafaxine by E. Yıldızhan, M. Ünlü Çilesiz, E. Ekici, N. Tomruk

“…She was diagnosed with bipolar-II-disorder, with mixed features and anxious distress (YMRS:17, HAM-D:22, YBOCS:34). …”
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Gender differences in self-reported social functioning of patients with chronic coronary artery disease and affective disorders by E. V. Lebedeva, E. D. Schastnyy, T. G. Nonka, A. N. Repin

“…ADs were represented by chronic mood disorders (45%), first-time depressive episodes (DEs) 24%, recurrent DEs 24.5%, as well as bipolar II disorder (BD II) 6.5%. ADs in 42.4% of patients were associated with psychosocial stressors (mainly, loss), p = 0.02. …”
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Variations in olfactory function among bipolar disorder patients with different episodes and subtypes by Chunyang Li, Liu Hong, Laiquan Zou, Yiping Zhu, Jianfu Ye, Fenlan Wu, Chao Chen

“…The BD patients were divided into a bipolar I disorder (BD I) (n = 86) and bipolar II disorder (BD II) group (n = 31) according to the different subtypes, and divided into depressive BD (n = 36), manic BD (n = 44), or euthymic BD (n = 37) groups according to the types of episodes they experienced. …”
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Real-world predictors of divorce among outpatients with bipolar disorder: sex differences and clinical implications by Keita Tokumitsu, Norio Sugawara, Naoto Adachi, Yukihisa Kubota, Yoichiro Watanabe, Kazuhira Miki, Takaharu Azekawa, Koji Edagawa, Eiichi Katsumoto, Seiji Hongo, Eiichiro Goto, Hitoshi Ueda, Masaki Kato, Reiji Yoshimura, Atsuo Nakagawa, Toshiaki Kikuchi, Takashi Tsuboi, Koichiro Watanabe, Norio Yasui-Furukori

“…The results revealed that for men, a younger age at baseline and having bipolar I disorder compared to bipolar II disorder were statistically significant predictors of divorce. …”
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The structure of affective fluctuations in a non-clinical sample by N. N. Osipova, L. M. Bardenstein, G. A. Aleshkina, E. V. Dmitrieva

“…These signs are very similar to the clinical manifestations of a hypomanic episode in bipolar II disorder.Signs of mild depression revealed according to the HAMD-17 scale in 34.8% (n = 45) of respondents included sleep disorders (r = 0.693), decreased ability to work (r = 0.520), depressive mood (r = 0.579), hypochondria (r = 0.466), general somatic symptoms (r = –0.508), and gastrointestinal disorders (r = 0.513). …”
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Identification of common neural substrates with connectomic abnormalities in four major psychiatric disorders: A connectome-wide association study by Pei-Chi Tu, Mu-Hong Chen, Wan-Chen Chang, Zih-Kai Kao, Ju-Wei Hsu, Wei-Chen Lin, Cheng-Ta Li, Tung-Ping Su, Ya-Mei Bai

“…This study aimed to identify all the common neural substrates with connectomic abnormalities across four major psychiatric disorders by using the data-driven connectome-wide association method of multivariate distance matrix regression (MDMR).MethodsThis study analyzed a resting functional magnetic resonance imaging dataset of 100 patients with schizophrenia, 100 patients with bipolar I disorder, 100 patients with bipolar II disorder, 100 patients with major depressive disorder, and 100 healthy controls (HCs). …”
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Leveraging genetic overlap between irritability and psychiatric disorders to identify genetic variants of major psychiatric disorders by Kyeongmin Jung, Joohyun Yoon, Yeeun Ahn, Soyeon Kim, Injeong Shim, Hyunwoong Ko, Sang-Hyuk Jung, Jaeyoung Kim, Hyejin Kim, Dong June Lee, Soojin Cha, Hyewon Lee, Beomsu Kim, Min Young Cho, Hyunbin Cho, Dan Say Kim, Jinho Kim, Woong-Yang Park, Tae Hwan Park, Kevin S. O`Connell, Ole A. Andreassen, Woojae Myung, Hong-Hee Won

“…Genetic correlations with psychiatric disorders were most pronounced for major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar II disorder (BD II). MiXeR analysis revealed polygenic overlap with schizophrenia (SCZ), bipolar I disorder (BD I), and MDD. …”
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Clinical description of affective disorders and efficiency of antidepressant therapy by E. V. Lebedeva, E. D. Schastnyy, G. G. Simutkin, A. N. Repin, T. G. Nonka

“…Newly diagnosed depressive episodes made up 24.5% and recurrent depressive disorder (RDD) was 24%. 6.5% were bipolar affective disorders (BAD), predominantly bipolar II disorders. Depressive syndrome in 91.7% of patients had the second significant component (more frequently 54.8%). …”
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