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Geriatrics (Basel)
January 2025
Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, Mangostraat 1, 2552 KS The Hague, The Netherlands.
: Life events and lack of social support are risk factors for a relapse or recurrence in patients with a bipolar disorder, yet studies focusing on older adults remain limited. Our aim was to investigate the influence of life events and social support on the course of bipolar disorder in older adults. : A retrospective cohort study included patients aged 55 years and older in treatment for bipolar disorder and who used lithium.
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January 2025
Bipolar disorder (BD) frequently occurs in children and adolescents, but pharmacological treatment in this group presents significant challenges. Clinicians often struggle to find appropriate treatment guidelines due to the primary focus of current guidelines on adults, leaving specific recommendations for the acute and maintenance treatment of BD in children and adolescents either insufficient or entirely absent. This gap is partly due to the lack of targeted studies in this age group, leading practitioners to rely on clinical experience and studies conducted in adults.
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January 2025
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Balıkesir Atatürk City Hospital, Balıkesir, Turkey.
Lithium has long been used as a cornerstone mood stabilizer in the treatment of bipolar disorder (BD). However, reliable biomarkers that can predict which patients will respond better to lithium are still lacking. This study aims to evaluate the potential of NR1D1 gene SNP; rs2071427 and actigraphic measurements in predicting lithium response.
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January 2025
CEReSS, Research Centre on Health Services and Quality of Life, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France.
Importance: Amid escalating mental health challenges among young individuals, intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, analyzing postpandemic trends is critical.
Objective: To examine mental health care utilization and prescription rates for children, adolescents, and young adults before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This population-based time trend study used an interrupted time series analysis to examine mental health care and prescription patterns among the French population 25 years and younger.
Drug Saf
December 2024
Division of Neurology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Box 117, 22100, Lund, Sweden.
Drug-induced cognitive impairment (DICI) is a well-established, yet under-recognised, complication of many types of pharmacological treatment. While there is a large body of scientific literature on DICI, most papers are about drug-induced dementia in the elderly and one specific drug class. However, DICI also comprises subclinical symptoms, domain-specific forms of cognitive impairment as well as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and delirium.
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