Patient educational level and management of bipolar disorder.

Background: Socioeconomic factors can affect healthcare management.

Aims: The aim was to investigate if patient educational attainment is associated with management of bipolar disorder.

Method: We included patients with bipolar disorder type 1 (n = 4289), type 2 (n = 4020) and not otherwise specified (n = 1756), from the Swedish National Quality Register for Bipolar Disorder (BipoläR).

[Treatment of pain in vertebral-spinal cord injury by functional operations on the spinal cord].

The article analyses the experience in operative interventions on the pain-conducting tracts of the spinal cord in 24 patients with pain consequent upon injury to the spine and spinal cord. Inferior commissurotomy was performed on 13 patients. It proved effective in cases in which the spinal cord was injured below the level of the 12th thoracic segment.