Do Children of Patients with Bipolar Disorder have a Worse Perception of Sleep Quality?

Introduction: The offspring of bipolar parents (BO) is a high-risk population for inheriting the bipolar disorder (BD) and other early clinical manifestations, such as sleep disturbances.

Objective: To compare the presence of psychiatric disorders and sleep disturbances of BO versus offspring of control parents (OCP).

Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted that compared BO versus OCP.

High risk for psychiatric disorders in bipolar offspring. A four years prospective study.

Unlabelled: Bipolar disorder (BD) has a large hereditary component. It is a disorder that begins in early adulthood, but about which it has been described a premorbid period preceding the onset of BD. During this herald expression psychiatric disorders and symptoms, such as depressive, manic, psychotic, anxious and others, may appear.

Do Children of Patients with Bipolar Disorder have a Worse Perception of Sleep Quality?

Introduction: The offspring of bipolar parents (BO) is a high-risk population for inheriting the bipolar disorder (BD) and other early clinical manifestations, such as sleep disturbances.

Objective: To compare the presence of psychiatric disorders and sleep disturbances of BO versus offspring of control parents (OCP).

Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted that compared BO versus OCP.

High Risk for Psychiatric Disorders in Bipolar Offspring. A Four Years Prospective Study.

Unlabelled: Bipolar disorder (BD) has a large hereditary component. It is a disorder that begins in early adulthood, but about which it has been described a premorbid period preceding the onset of BD. During this herald expression psychiatric disorders and symptoms, such as depressive, manic, psychotic, anxious and others, may appear.

Telepsychiatry: A Successful Experience in Antioquia, Colombia.

Objective: To describe the experience of physicians and patients in the Telepsychiatry programme at the University of Antioquia's Faculty of Medicine in the first 12 months after its implementation in eight towns across Antioquia.

Methodology: A descriptive study involving the evaluation of 111 patients during the programme's first year. An instrument was designed to evaluate patients' satisfaction and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was used to evaluate the health professionals' satisfaction.

Sexual and Reproductive Health in Patients with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.

Introduction: People with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) have a high risk of unwanted pregnancies and abortions, due to their condition of vulnerability or hypersexuality (common in BD). This is associated with difficulty in planning their actions and lack of sex education and counselling by medical personnel, and can lead to adverse obstetric outcomes and inability to care adequately for their children.

Objective: To describe the characteristics in terms of sexual and reproductive health, and the use of contraception and counselling in psychiatric consultations, in a sample of patients with BD and schizophrenia in Medellin, Colombia.

[Actigraphy in Bipolar Disorder and First Degree Relatives].

Background: Bipolar disorder is a disabling disease that involves a significant economic costs to the health system, making it is essential to investigate possible early predictors such as changes in sleep-wake cycle in high-risk populations.

Objective: To review the available literature on alterations in the sleep-wake cycle and circadian rhythm in patients with bipolar disorder and their first degree relatives.

Methods: A literature search was performed in the data bases, Access Medicine, ClinicalKey, EMBASE, JAMA, Lilacs, OVID, Oxford Journals, ScienceDirect, SciELO, APA y PsycNET.