Leonardo Tondo, Alessandro Miola, Marco Pinna, Martina Contu, Ross J Baldessarini
{"title":"Differences between bipolar disorder types 1 and 2 support the DSM two-syndrome concept.","authors":"Leonardo Tondo, Alessandro Miola, Marco Pinna, Martina Contu, Ross J Baldessarini","doi":"10.1186/s40345-022-00268-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40345-022-00268-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To compare characteristics of bipolar disorder patients diagnosed as DSM-5 types I (BD-1) vs. II (BD-2).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We compared descriptive, psychopathological, and treatment characteristics in a sample of 1377 consenting, closely and repeatedly evaluated adult BD patient-subjects from a specialty clinic, using bivariate methods and logistic multivariable modeling.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Factors found more among BD-2 > BD-1 cases included: [a] descriptors (more familial affective disorder, older at onset, diagnosis and first-treatment, more education, employment and higher socioeconomic status, more marriage and children, and less obesity); [b] morbidity (more general medical diagnoses, less drug abuse and smoking, more initial depression and less [hypo]mania or psychosis, longer episodes, higher intake depression and anxiety ratings, less mood-switching with antidepressants, less seasonal mood-change, greater %-time depressed and less [hypo]manic, fewer hospitalizations, more depression-predominant polarity, DMI > MDI course-pattern, and less violent suicidal behavior); [c] specific item-scores with initial HDRS<sub>21</sub> (higher scores for depression, guilt, suicidality, insomnia, anxiety, agitation, gastrointestinal symptoms, hypochondriasis and weight-loss, with less psychomotor retardation, depersonalization, or paranoia); and [d] treatment (less use of lithium or antipsychotics, more antidepressant and benzodiazepine treatment).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>BD-2 was characterized by more prominent and longer depressions with some hypomania and mixed-features but not mania and rarely psychosis. BD-2 subjects had higher socioeconomic and functional status but also high levels of long-term morbidity and suicidal risk. Accordingly, BD-2 is dissimilar to, but not necessarily less severe than BD-1, consistent with being distinct syndromes.</p>","PeriodicalId":13944,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bipolar Disorders","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9346033/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40595111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ling Zhang, Honggeng Zhang, Lu-Xian Lv, Qingrong Tan, Xiufeng Xu, Jian Hu, Lu Zi, James Cooper, Abhay Phansalkar, Gang Wang
{"title":"A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of lamotrigine in the maintenance treatment of Chinese adult patients with bipolar I disorder.","authors":"Ling Zhang, Honggeng Zhang, Lu-Xian Lv, Qingrong Tan, Xiufeng Xu, Jian Hu, Lu Zi, James Cooper, Abhay Phansalkar, Gang Wang","doi":"10.1186/s40345-022-00266-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40345-022-00266-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Lamotrigine is approved as a maintenance therapy for bipolar I disorder in many countries, including China in 2021. This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of lamotrigine in controlling relapse and/or recurrence of mood episodes in Chinese patients with bipolar I disorder.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Patients aged ≥ 18 years with bipolar I disorder who met response criteria (Clinical Global Impression-Severity [CGI-S] score of ≤ 3 for ≥ 4 consecutive weeks) during treatment with lamotrigine in a 6-16 week open-label (OL) phase, and who were maintained for ≥ 1 week on lamotrigine 200 mg/day monotherapy, were randomised (1:1) to continue receiving lamotrigine 200 mg/day or switch to placebo in a 36-week randomised double-blind (RD) phase. The primary efficacy outcome measure was time from entry into the RD phase to intervention for relapse and/or recurrence of a mood episode (TIME). Post hoc analyses assessed the impact of OL baseline mood severity on TIME. Safety assessments were conducted throughout the study.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 420 patients treated in the OL phase, 264 were randomised to receive lamotrigine (n = 131) or placebo (n = 133). Overall, 112 patients had an intervention for relapse and/or recurrence of a mood episode (lamotrigine, n = 50/130 [38.5%]; placebo, n = 62/133 [46.6%]), with no significant difference in TIME between groups (adjusted hazard ratio [95% confidence interval (CI)] 0.93 [0.64, 1.35]; p = 0.701). Post hoc analyses indicated a significant difference in TIME, favouring lamotrigine over placebo, for patients with baseline CGI-S score ≥ 4 (hazard ratio [95% CI] 0.52 [0.30, 0.89]; p = 0.018) and with baseline Hamilton Depression Rating Scale ≥ 18 or Young Mania Rating Scale ≥ 10 (0.44 [hazard ratio [95% CI] 0.25, 0.78]; p = 0.005). Lamotrigine was well tolerated with no new safety signals.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Lamotrigine was not significantly superior to placebo in preventing relapse and/or recurrence of mood episodes in this study of Chinese patients with bipolar I disorder but post hoc analyses suggested a therapeutic benefit in patients with moderate/severe mood symptoms at baseline. The discrepancy between these findings and the positive findings of the pivotal studies may be attributable to the symptom severity of the bipolar patients recruited, a high dropout rate, and the comparatively short duration of the RD phase rather than race/ethnicity differences. Clinical trial registration ClinicalTrial.gov Identifier NCT01602510; 21st May 2012; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01602510 .</p>","PeriodicalId":13944,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bipolar Disorders","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9339436/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40657618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Petri Arvilommi, Sanna Pallaskorpi, Outi Linnaranta, Kirsi Suominen, Sami Leppämäki, Hanna Valtonen, Erkki Isometsä
{"title":"Long-term work disability due to type I and II bipolar disorder: findings of a six-year prospective study.","authors":"Petri Arvilommi, Sanna Pallaskorpi, Outi Linnaranta, Kirsi Suominen, Sami Leppämäki, Hanna Valtonen, Erkki Isometsä","doi":"10.1186/s40345-022-00264-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40345-022-00264-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Bipolar disorder (BD) is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. However, the prevalence and predictors of long-term work disability among patients with type I and II BD have scarcely been studied. We investigated the clinical predictors of long-term work disability among patients with BD.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The Jorvi Bipolar Study (JoBS) is a naturalistic prospective cohort study (n = 191) of adult psychiatric in- and out-patients with DSM-IV type I and II BD in three Finnish cities. Within JoBS we examined the prevalence and predictors of disability pension being granted during a six-year follow-up of the 152 patients in the labor force at baseline and collected information on granted pensions from national registers. We determined the predictors of disability pension using logistic regression models.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Over the 6 years, 44% of the patients belonging to the labor force at baseline were granted a disability pension. Older age; type I BD; comorbidity with generalized anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder or avoidant personality disorder; and duration of time with depressive or mixed symptoms predicted disability pensions. Including disability pensions granted before baseline increased their total prevalence to 55.5%. The observed predictors were similar.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This regionally representative long-term prospective study found that about half of patients with type I or II bipolar disorder suffer from persistent work disability that leads to disability pension. In addition to the severity of the clinical course and type I bipolar disorder, the longitudinal accumulation of time depressed, psychiatric comorbidity, and older age predicted pensioning.</p>","PeriodicalId":13944,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bipolar Disorders","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9271449/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40488460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychedelics in the treatment of unipolar and bipolar depression.","authors":"Oliver G Bosch, Simon Halm, Erich Seifritz","doi":"10.1186/s40345-022-00265-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40345-022-00265-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This is a narrative review about the role of classic and two atypical psychedelics in the treatment of unipolar and bipolar depression. Since the 1990s, psychedelics experience a renaissance in biomedical research. The so-called classic psychedelics include lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin, mescaline and ayahuasca. Characteristic effects like alterations in sensory perception, as well as emotion- and self-processing are induced by stimulation of serotonin 2A receptors in cortical areas. The new paradigm of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy suggests a therapeutic framework in which a safely conducted psychedelic experience is integrated into a continuous psychotherapeutic process. First randomized, controlled trials with psilocybin show promising efficacy, tolerability, and adherence in the treatment of unipolar depression. On the other hand, classic psychedelics seem to be associated with the induction of mania, which is an important issue to consider for the design of research and clinical protocols. So called atypical psychedelics are a heterogeneous group with overlapping subjective effects but different neurobiological mechanisms. Two examples of therapeutic value in psychiatry are 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and ketamine. Since 2020 the ketamine enantiomer esketamine has been granted international approval for treatment-resistant unipolar depression, and also first evidence exists for the therapeutic efficacy of ketamine in bipolar depression. Whether psychedelics will fulfil current expectations and find their way into broader clinical use will depend on future rigorous clinical trials with larger sample sizes. A well-considered therapeutic and legal framework will be crucial for these substances to create new treatment settings and a potential paradigm shift.</p>","PeriodicalId":13944,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bipolar Disorders","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9256889/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40481605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bartholt Bloomfield-Clagett, Dede K Greenstein, Carlos A Zarate, Elizabeth D Ballard
{"title":"The association between variability, intensity, and persistence of suicidal ideation and prospective suicidal behavior in the systematic treatment enhancement program for bipolar disorder (STEP-BD) study.","authors":"Bartholt Bloomfield-Clagett, Dede K Greenstein, Carlos A Zarate, Elizabeth D Ballard","doi":"10.1186/s40345-022-00263-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40345-022-00263-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study sought to examine the association between prospective suicidal behavior and variability, intensity, and persistence of suicidal ideation (SI) in bipolar disorder (BD).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were drawn from the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD), a naturalistic study of 4360 outpatients 15 years or older with BD. In separate models, logistic regressions with suicidal behavior (first attempt or death by suicide) as the outcome variable and SI variability (fluctuating levels of SI over time, measured as ordinal dispersion of SI score), intensity (median SI score over time in study), or persistence (number of visits with reported SI) as the explanatory variables were used to examine the relationship between SI characteristics and odds of future suicidal behavior events.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>After adjusting for possible confounders, the odds of prospective suicidal behavior were 1.2 times greater per 10% increase in SI variability. SI persistence was not associated with suicidal behavior. For SI intensity, a median SI score of 'rare/fleeting' or 'several days' of SI was not associated with suicidal behavior, but the odds of prospective suicidal behavior were nearly five times greater for participants with the highest observed median SI intensity score of 'nearly every day'.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings suggest that, in BD participants, monitoring SI variability may be clinically useful for assessing suicide risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":13944,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bipolar Disorders","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9247121/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40552215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martina Wenzel, Heike Althen, Julia Veeh, Andreas Reif
{"title":"Euthymic patients with predominantly manic polarity avoid happy faces in a dot probe task.","authors":"Martina Wenzel, Heike Althen, Julia Veeh, Andreas Reif","doi":"10.1186/s40345-022-00262-8","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40345-022-00262-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Some studies suggest a mood-congruent attentional bias in bipolar patients. However, for euthymic patients, especially in dependence on the predominant polarity, there is little and inconsistent data. A clearer understanding of emotion-related attentional biases and their relationship to dysfunctional emotion regulation could help improving the diagnostics and treatment of bipolar disorder (BD). Twenty bipolar patients in a depressive state (BP-acute-D), 32 euthymic patients with manic (BP-euth-M) or depressive (BP-euth-D) predominant polarity, and 20 healthy control participants (HC) performed a dot-probe task (DPT) with happy and sad faces presented for 250 ms or 1250 ms in two different runs. Emotion regulation strategies were assessed with two questionnaires.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the short presentation condition of the DPT, BP-euth-M showed less attention for happy faces than HC (p = .03, r = - 0.48). BP-acute-D scored lower in cognitive reappraisal and putting into perspective and higher in suppression, catastrophizing, and rumination than HC. BP-euth-M scored higher in rumination and BP-euth-D lower in putting into perspective and higher in catastrophizing than HC. In BP-euth-D and HC, bias scores for sad faces in the longer presentation condition and reappraisal scores correlated positively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results of the DPT suggest an avoidance of happy faces for BP-euth-M which we interpret as a protection mechanism for triggers of mania. That individuals who apply more reappraisal show more selective attention to sad faces could on the one hand reflect a mental effort in reevaluating the sad emotional input and on the other hand a greater tolerance for it.</p>","PeriodicalId":13944,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bipolar Disorders","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9226225/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40330973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiri Benacek, N. Martin-Key, B. Spadaro, Jakub Tomasik, S. Bahn
{"title":"Using decision-analysis modelling to estimate the economic impact of the identification of unrecognised bipolar disorder in primary care: the untapped potential of screening","authors":"Jiri Benacek, N. Martin-Key, B. Spadaro, Jakub Tomasik, S. Bahn","doi":"10.1186/s40345-022-00261-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40345-022-00261-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13944,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bipolar Disorders","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41627442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Spano, V. Hennion, C. Marie-Claire, F. Bellivier, Jan Scott, B. Étain
{"title":"Associations between circadian misalignment and telomere length in BD: an actigraphy study","authors":"L. Spano, V. Hennion, C. Marie-Claire, F. Bellivier, Jan Scott, B. Étain","doi":"10.1186/s40345-022-00260-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40345-022-00260-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13944,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bipolar Disorders","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47597741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is cognitive behaviour therapy applicable to individuals diagnosed with bipolar depression or suboptimal mood stabilizer treatment: a secondary analysis of a large pragmatic effectiveness trial","authors":"Jan Scott, R. Bentall, P. Kinderman, R. Morriss","doi":"10.1186/s40345-022-00259-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40345-022-00259-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13944,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bipolar Disorders","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43320872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Bos, M. Schreuder, S. George, B. Doornbos, R. Bruggeman, L. van der Krieke, B. Haarman, M. Wichers, E. Snippe
{"title":"Anticipating manic and depressive transitions in patients with bipolar disorder using early warning signals","authors":"F. Bos, M. Schreuder, S. George, B. Doornbos, R. Bruggeman, L. van der Krieke, B. Haarman, M. Wichers, E. Snippe","doi":"10.1186/s40345-022-00258-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40345-022-00258-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13944,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bipolar Disorders","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45187482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}