The largest delay discounting effects were found to be associated with bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and schizophrenia. The image is in the public domain.
While patients with schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder experience a lack of motivation and anhedonia, the neural patterns of emotion-behavior dissociation differ between the disorders.
Disruptions in the Atk protein can lead to brain changes that are characteristic of bipolar disorder.
Researchers use mathematical modeling in an attempt to better understand the 'mood dynamics' of people with bipolar disorder.
Analyzing previous studies, researchers have identified the effects of individual and environmental risk factors for suicide over a person's lifespan. The risk factors, researchers report, change throughout a person's lifetime.
A new study reveals differences in genes in four areas of the brain that contribute to psychiatric disorders.
Researchers establish a link between short term exposure to lithium and potential kidney damage.
A genetic liability for major depression increases suicide risk across other psychiatric disorders.
Researchers report the CPG2 protein is significantly decreased in the brains of people with bipolar disorder and mutations in the SYNE1 gene undermines the expression of CPG2. The study shows how a set of genetic differences in those with bipolar disorder can lead to specific psychological dysfunction in synapses in the brain. The findings could help improve diagnosis of the disorder and help develop new treatments for BD.
According to researchers, genes within the striatum could be deeply involved in bipolar disorder.
Researchers report common symptoms of bipolar depression and schizophrenia, such as depression, psychosis and mania, have shared and distinguished genetic risk factors. The findings could help with the development of more effective therapies for these neuropsychological disorders.
Exposure to household pet dogs in the early years of life was associated with a significantly decreased risk of being diagnosed with schizophrenia later in life.
