Es wird eine Frau mit Kokain- und Alkoholabusus beschrieben, welche im Rahmen einer Kortikosteroidverschreibung eine erste maniforme Episode entwickelt. Die Differentialdiagnose wird aufgrund der zur Verfügung stehenden Literatur über sekundäre Manien ...
Therapy with Lithium Salts in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Clinical Efficacy and Practical RecommendationsSummary: Lithium salts are pharmacologically classified as mood stabilizers and are medications of first choice for the treatment of manic ...
The genetics of depressive disordersSummary: Among the most common severe psychiatric disorders worldwide, depressive disorders are a leading cause of morbidity, the onset usually occurring during childhood or adolescence. Symptomatology, prevalence, ...
Pharmacotherapy in bipolar disorders during childhood and adolescenceSummary:Objective: Bipolar disorders during childhood and adolescence are rare, but serious and highly recurrent disorders, often associated with negative outcome. Pharmacotherapy, ...
Bipolar disorders as co-morbidity in childhood and adolescence – underdiagnosed or overinterpreted? Therapy of a 14-year-old boy with Hyperkinetic Conduct Disorder and hypomaniaObjective: Considerable debate exists regarding differing prevalence rates of ...
Objective: A heritable behavioral phenotype, the so-called Dysregulation Profile (DP), characterized by extreme scores on the syndrome scales Anxious/Depressed (A/D), Attention Problems (AP), and Aggressive Behavior (AGG), has been identified on the Child ...
Objective: Research in adults has identified an association between bipolar disorder and suicidal behavior. This relationship, however, has been insufficiently investigated in adolescents to date. Methods: 1,117 adolescents from 13 German schools (mean ...
Pharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder and acute maniaPharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder is challenging. Symptomatology over the course of the disease can manifest in different ways: as acute mania, hypomania, bipolar depression and mixed states. Adherence ...
Emotion-regulation training for patients with bipolar disorder – First results of a pilot studyCompared to healthy controls, patients with bipolar disorder display an increased use of maladaptive and a decreased use of adaptive emotion regulation ...
Psycho- und socio-therapeutic interventions in the treatment of bipolar affective disorders – reviewThe effectiveness of mood-stabilizing medication in the phase-prophylactic treatment of bipolar disorders has been documented. Nonetheless patients ...
What is important to patients? Determination of patient-centered therapeutic goals in the treatment of bipolar disordersAbstract. Patient-centeredness incorporates the consideration of patients' preferences of therapy aims. Shared decision-making can ...
Abstract. Light therapy has become established as an evidence-based treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder. Light impacts the timing and stability of circadian rhythms as expressed in sleep, mood, alertness, and ...
Early-onset bipolar disorder, ADHD, or emotional dysregulation?This review gives an overview of the background to the controversy along with orientations for clinical practice. For diagnosing early-onset BD, special emphasis should be laid on the ...
Abstract. Affective disorders, specifically Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorders, show high prevalence, relapse rates, and a high likelihood to develop a chronic course. For the past two decades, research has investigated ...
Background: Clozapine and lithium increase neurosteroids in rodents, and both drugs demonstrate antisuicidal actions. We therefore hypothesized that neurosteroid levels may be reduced in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder who completed ...
Introduction: Affective disorders are thought to be associated primarily with changes in positive affect (PA) and secondarily with changes in negative affect (NA). Based upon a dysregulation model, we assumed that people at risk for bipolar disorders show ...
The role of attributional style in bipolar disorder has received empirical support. Research suggests that a pattern of global, stable, and possibly internal attributions for positive events might even trigger mania. We tested whether hypothesized risk ...