Susan L. McElroy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read this article to learn whether age of onset of bipolar disorder or psychiatric illness is due to demographics or family psychiatric history.

 

 

 

Read an article exploring further evidence of the cohort effect for earlier age at onset of bipolar disorder and greater burden of psychiatric disorders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read a study comparing the efficacy and tolerability of quetiapine and lithium monotherapy with a placebo for a major depressive episode in bipolar disorder.

 

Since 2013, when DSM-5 was published, a third of the patients previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder no longer qualify as having the disorder. So what does this say about...

 

Read an article examining the influence of age at early onset bipolar disorder and the delay in time to first treatment on morbidity in adulthood.

 

Read a study evaluating dasotraline, a novel dopamine and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, in treating adults with binge-eating disorder (BED).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Psychostimulant cessation can be associated with withdrawal symptoms. This study examined if dependence developed during lisdexamfetamine treatment for binge-eating disorder, as evidenced by presence of withdrawal symptoms after stopping...

In this study, 25 overweight or obese women with major depressive disorder received up to 24 weeks of open-label treatment with a combination of 32 mg per day of...

 

 

 

The current study assessed the long-term metabolic effects of aripiprazole monotherapy relative to lithium monotherapy for the treatment of bipolar I disorder.

Many patients with bipolar disorder in the United States experience a deteriorating course of illness despite naturalistic treatment in the community. In this study, Post and colleagues explored this...

 

 

 

 

Early-onset bipolar disorder may represent a distinct phenotype with greater severity, but the genetics of it are still poorly understood. This study used candidate genetic risk score analysis to...