| Personality Functioning Associated With Global Functioning in Bipolar Disorder I
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Personality functioning had a significant predictive effect on global functioning for patients in the euthymic phase of bipolar disorder I, according to findings published in Psychiatry Research. Researchers collected demographic and clinical features from 100 patients with bipolar disorder I whose disease ... Brain scans may help diagnose neurological, psychiatric disorders
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There are no laboratory tests to diagnose migraines, depression, bipolar disorder and many other ailments of the brain. Doctors typically gauge such illnesses based on self-reported symptoms and behavior. Now, a new study shows that a kind of brain scan called functional connectivity MRI (fcMRI) ... Research reveals stronger people have healthier brains
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"Our research has shown that the connections between muscular strength and brain functioning also exist in people experiencing schizophrenia, major depression and bipolar disorder – all of which can interfere with regular brain functioning. "This raises the strong possibility that weight training ... 3-D human 'mini-brains' shed new light on genetic underpinnings of major mental illness
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Major mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, severe depression and bipolar disorder share a common genetic link. Studies of specific families with a history of these types of illnesses have revealed that affected family members share a mutation in the gene DISC1. While researchers have been able to ... Study identifies new method of treating bipolar depression
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“This study provides hope for bipolar disorder patients by supporting the efficacy and safety of antidepressant therapy use for bipolar depression, which has always been considered a 'treatment-resistant' disabling state,” says Dr. Eldar Hochman of Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine, who ...
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