Late-Onset Bipolar Disorder: Considerations for Diagnosis and Treatment.

Bipolar I disorder is characterized by the presence of at least one manic episode (DSM-5). Despite a decent percentage of individuals being diagnosed later in life, there currently exist no formal treatment guidelines for late-onset bipolar disorder (LOBD), which remains poorly understood. Typically, manic or manic-like episodes in elderly individuals can be thought of as arising from a secondary, physical cause.

Monitoring for myocarditis during treatment initiation with clozapine.

Objective: Clozapine use is associated with myocarditis. In this study, we investigated what clinical signs and symptoms, and/or laboratory test(s), alert clinicians to presumptive myocarditis (PrMy) most accurately and at the earliest time point. We also investigated the incidence of PrMy during the initial exposure to clozapine versus in patients restarted on clozapine after extended interruption of prior prolonged treatment.

A Novel Hypergraph-Based Genetic Algorithm (HGGA) Built on Unimodular and Anti-homomorphism Properties for DNA Sequencing by Hybridization.

The sequencing by hybridization (SBH) of determining the order in which nucleotides should occur on a DNA string is still under discussion for enhancements on computational intelligence although the next generation of DNA sequencing has come into existence. In the last decade, many works related to graph theory-based DNA sequencing have been carried out in the literature. This paper proposes a method for SBH by integrating hypergraph with genetic algorithm (HGGA) for designing a novel analytic technique to obtain DNA sequence from its spectrum.