Topic: National Institutes Of Health

Side effects of Saphris

Saphris is a relatively new antipsychotic drug which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved for the treatment of bipolar disorder and for schizophrenia. Before taking any Saphris medication, you should discuss with your doctor any previous allergic reactions you ...

Side effects of Olanzapine

Olanzapine is an antipsychotic drug which is typically prescribed to people suffering from bipolar disorder or from schizophrenia, although it may be prescribed off-label (that is, without official approval) for anxiety disorders , as well. Note that olanzapine is the generic drug ...
The anesthetic drug ketamine helps ease depression in patients with treatment-resistant bipolar disorder, a new study finds.. Depressive symptoms are a major part of bipolar disorder, which affects about four percent of Americans at some point in their lives. There are several ...

Fear Circuit Flares as Bipolar Youth Misread Faces

Youth with bipolar disorder misread facial expressions as hostile and show heightened neural reactions when they focus on emotional aspects of neutral faces, researchers at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have discovered. Such a face-processing ...
Patients taking medications to treat bipolar disorder are more likely to get well faster and stay well if they receive intensive psychotherapy, according to results from the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD), funded by the National Institutes of Health's ...
Bipolar disorder costs twice as much in lost productivity as major depressive disorder, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has found. The study by Drs. Ronald Kessler, Philip Wang, Harvard University, and ...
The number of visits to a doctor's office that resulted in a diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents has increased by 40 times over the last decade, reported researchers funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Mark ...

More Kids Diagnosed as Bipolar but Should They Be?

In the mid-1990s, 25 out of every 100,000 children were diagnosed as bipolar. "[E]ither bipolar disorder was historically underdiagnosed in children and adolescents and that problem has now been rectified, or bipolar disorder is currently being overdiagnosed in this age group," they ...