News Related to Bipolar Disorder

1. Tamoxifen May Help Treat Bipolar Mania
   

   March 3, 2008 -- Tamoxifen, a widely used breast cancer drug, appears to help treat the manic phase of bipolar disorder. Researchers say the discovery should help them come up with even better drugs to treat bipolar patients. In a newly published study from Turkey, roughly half the manic patients wh

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2. A Blood Test for Mood Disorders?
   

   Feb. 25, 2008 -- Scientists may be one step closer to creating a blood test for bipolar disorder and other mood disorders. Mood disorders may have blood biomarkers -- chemicals in blood -- that can be detected, new research shows. In a preliminary study, researchers identified 10 biomarkers in blood

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3. 1 Decade, 40 Times More Bipolar Kids
   

   Sept. 4, 2007 -- Today's children and teens are 40 times more likely to have bipolar disorder than were the children of 10 years ago. That's 20 times faster than the growth in diagnoses of adult bipolar disorder over the same decade. Are we only now discovering a huge reservoir of untreated psychiat

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4. Many Genes May Affect Bipolar Disorder
   

   May 8, 2007 -- Bipolar disorder, formerly called manic depression, may be influenced by several genes, a new study shows. The findings may one day lead to new treatments for bipolar disorder. "Treatments that target just a few of these genes or the proteins they make could yield substantial benefits

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5. Bipolar Illness Widely Underdiagnosed
   

   May 7, 2007 -- There appear to be almost twice as many Americans with bipolar disorder as previously thought, and many are not getting the treatments they need, researchers from the National Institute of Mental Health report. Once thought of as a single mental illness, bipolar disorder is increasing

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6. Intensive Therapy Helps Bipolar
   

   April 2, 2007 -- Treating bipolar depression with intensive psychotherapy plus medication may be more effective than brief psychotherapy plus medication. That news comes from a study of nearly 300 U.S. adults with bipolar disorder, which is marked by extreme mood shifts from depression to mania. All

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7. Antidepressants Don't Help Bipolar
   

   March 28, 2007 -- Adding antidepressants to mood-stabilizing drugs may not help -- or hurt -- the treatment of bipolar depression, the depressive phase of bipolar disorder. Researchers report that news online in The New England Journal of Medicine. They included Gary Sachs, MD, of Massachusetts Gene

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8. Antidepressants Risky for Bipolar II?
   

   March 15, 2007 -- There is widespread concern that antidepressants may increase suicide risk, but an Italian psychiatric disorders expert says this may only be true when the drugs are used incorrectly. In an essay appearing March 17 in The Lancet, Franco Benazzi, MD, PhD, writes about a common but p

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9. Seroquel OK'd for Bipolar Depression
   

   Oct. 20, 2006 -- The FDA has approved the antipsychotic drug Seroquel to treat bipolar depression. Seroquel was already approved to treat the manic phases of bipolar disorder (formerly called manic-depressive illness). It had also been approved for the treatment of schizophrenia . The FDA's action m

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10. Study: Bipolar Kids Often More Creative
    

    Nov. 14, 2005 -- Children with or at risk for bipolar disorder may be more creative than other, healthy children, according to a new study. Researchers found that a small group of children of bipolar parents scored significantly higher on a creativity index than other children. They say the findings

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