Andreea Chiorean, Brett D. M. Jones, Mijia Murong, Christina Gonzalez-Torres, Stefan Kloiber, Abigail Ortiz, Joshua D. Rosenblat, Benoit H. Mulsant, M. Ishrat Husain
{"title":"Prescribed psychostimulants and other pro-cognitive medications in bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of recurrence of manic symptoms","authors":"Andreea Chiorean, Brett D. M. Jones, Mijia Murong, Christina Gonzalez-Torres, Stefan Kloiber, Abigail Ortiz, Joshua D. Rosenblat, Benoit H. Mulsant, M. Ishrat Husain","doi":"10.1111/bdi.13440","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bdi.13440","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objectives</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Clinicians are often hesitant to prescribe psychostimulants in bipolar disorder (BD) due to concerns of inducing (hypo)mania, despite limited published evidence on associations between prescribed psychostimulant use and recurrence of mood episodes in BD. The current systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the emergence of (hypo)manic symptoms in patients with BD receiving prescribed psychostimulants or other pro-cognitive medications in euthymic or depressive states.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A systematic search was performed of MEDLINE, Embase, and PsychINFO from inception to April 5, 2023 and search of Clinicaltrials.gov and Clinicaltrialsregister.eu for unpublished data. References of included studies were hand-searched. Randomized trials and prospective longitudinal studies that evaluated psychostimulants and non-stimulant medications recommended for the treatment of ADHD by the Canadian ADHD practice guidelines were included. The review was reported in line with PRISMA guidelines and was preregistered on PROSPERO (CRD42022358588).</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>After screening 414 unique records, we included 27 studies, of which five reported data that was quantitatively synthesized (<i>n</i> = 1653). The use of psychostimulants in BD was not associated with increased scores on the Young Mania Rating Scale in patients who were in a euthymic or depressed state (SMD IV −0.17; 95% CI, −0.40 to 0.06) compared to placebo. There was a high degree of study-level heterogeneity (<i>I</i><sup>2</sup> = 80%). A qualitative synthesis of studies revealed a limited risk of medication-induced manic symptoms.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Our review provides preliminary evidence to suggest psychostimulants and non-stimulant ADHD medications have a limited risk of precipitating (hypo)mania symptoms. More extensive studies evaluating the safety and efficacy of these medications are warranted.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8959,"journal":{"name":"Bipolar Disorders","volume":"26 5","pages":"418-430"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bdi.13440","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140803212","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}
Lakshmi N. Yatham, Ayal Schaffer, Lars V. Kessing, Kamilla Miskowiak, Flavio Kapczinski, Eduard Vieta, Robert M. Post, Michael Berk
{"title":"Early intervention, relapse prevention, and neuroprogression in bipolar disorder: The evidence matters","authors":"Lakshmi N. Yatham, Ayal Schaffer, Lars V. Kessing, Kamilla Miskowiak, Flavio Kapczinski, Eduard Vieta, Robert M. Post, Michael Berk","doi":"10.1111/bdi.13435","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bdi.13435","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8959,"journal":{"name":"Bipolar Disorders","volume":"26 4","pages":"313-316"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140656701","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":"Potential role of metformin cessation in bipolar mania relapse, with subsequent resolution upon re-initiation: A case report","authors":"Kimberly Choo, Han Lin Wan, Nisha Chandwani","doi":"10.1111/bdi.13437","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bdi.13437","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8959,"journal":{"name":"Bipolar Disorders","volume":"26 5","pages":"496-499"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140663000","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}
Louise Basquin, Julia Maruani, Jeanne Leseur, Sibylle Mauries, Balthazar Bazin, Guillaume Pineau, Chantal Henry, Michel Lejoyeux, Pierre A. Geoffroy
{"title":"Study of the different sleep disturbances during the prodromal phase of depression and mania in bipolar disorders","authors":"Louise Basquin, Julia Maruani, Jeanne Leseur, Sibylle Mauries, Balthazar Bazin, Guillaume Pineau, Chantal Henry, Michel Lejoyeux, Pierre A. Geoffroy","doi":"10.1111/bdi.13429","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bdi.13429","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>One of the challenges in bipolar disorder (BD) lies in early detection of the illness and its recurrences, to improve prognosis. Sleep disturbances (SD) have been proposed as reliable predictive markers of conversion. While preliminary studies have explored the relationship between SD and the onset of mood episodes, the results remain heterogeneous and a few have specifically examined patients' perception of prodromal symptoms and their progression until the episode occurs. Identifying prodromes represents a crucial clinical challenge, as it enables early intervention, thereby reducing the severity of BD. Therefore, the objective of this study is to better characterize and evaluate the progressive nature of SD as prodromal symptoms of mood episodes, and patients' perception of it.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Patients diagnosed with BD, either hospitalized or seeking treatment for a (hypo)manic or depressive episode benefited from standardized questionnaires, structured interviews, and self-report questionnaires to evaluate SD prior to the current episode, as well as sociodemographic and clinical information.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Out of the 41 patients included, 59% spontaneously reported SD prior to the episode, appearing 90 days before depression and 35 days before mania (pre-indexed/spontaneous reports: 51.22% insomnia complaints, 4.88% hypersomnolence complaints, 7.32% parasomnias, 2.44% sleep movements). After inquiry about specific SD, the percentage of patients reporting prodromal SD increased significantly to 83%, appearing 210 days before depression and 112.5 days before mania (post-indexed reports: 75.61% presented with insomnia complaints appearing 150 days before depression and 20 days before mania, 46.34% had hypersomnolence complaints appearing 60 days before depression, 43.9% had parasomnias appearing 210 days before depression and 22.5 days before mania, 36.59% had sleep movements appearing 120 days before depression and 150 days before mania). Of note, bruxism appeared in 35% of patients before mania, and restless legs syndrome in 20% of patients before depression.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study highlights the very high prevalence of SD prior to a mood episode in patients with BD with differences between depressive and manic episodes. The more systematic screening of sleep alterations of the prodromal phase improved the recognition and characterization of different symptoms onset by patients. This underscores the need for ","PeriodicalId":8959,"journal":{"name":"Bipolar Disorders","volume":"26 5","pages":"454-467"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bdi.13429","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140668714","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}
Taipeng Sun, Gang Chen, Wenhao Jiang, Wei Xu, Linlin You, Chenguang Jiang, Suzhen Chen, Dan Wang, Xiao Zheng, Yonggui Yuan
{"title":"Distinguishing bipolar depression, bipolar mania, and major depressive disorder by gut microbial characteristics","authors":"Taipeng Sun, Gang Chen, Wenhao Jiang, Wei Xu, Linlin You, Chenguang Jiang, Suzhen Chen, Dan Wang, Xiao Zheng, Yonggui Yuan","doi":"10.1111/bdi.13439","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bdi.13439","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Gut microbial disturbance has been widely confirmed in mood disorders. However, little is known about whether gut microbial characteristics can distinguish major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar depression (BP-D), and bipolar mania (BP-M).</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This was a prospective case–control study. The composition of gut microbiota was profiled using 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequencing of fecal samples and compared between healthy controls (HC; <i>n</i> = 46), MDD (<i>n</i> = 51), BP-D (<i>n</i> = 44), and patients with BP-M (<i>n</i> = 45).</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Gut microbial compositions were remarkably changed in the patients with MDD, BP-D, and BP-M. Compared to HC, distinct gut microbiome signatures were found in MDD, BP-D, and BP-M, and some gut microbial changes were overlapping between the three mood disorders. Furthermore, we identified a signature of 7 <i>operational taxonomic units</i> (OUT; <i>Prevotellaceae</i>-related OUT22, <i>Prevotellaceae</i>-related OUT31, <i>Prevotellaceae</i>-related OTU770, <i>Ruminococcaceae</i>-related OUT70, <i>Bacteroidaceae</i>-related OTU1536, <i>Propionibacteriaceae</i>-related OTU97, <i>Acidaminococcaceae</i>-related OTU34) that can distinguish patients with MDD from those with BP-D, BP-M, or HC, with area under the curve (AUC) values ranging from 0.910 to 0.996.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Our results provide the clinical rationale for the discriminative diagnosis of MDD, BP-D, and BP-M by characteristic gut microbial features.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8959,"journal":{"name":"Bipolar Disorders","volume":"26 6","pages":"584-594"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140676528","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":"Manic episode associated with baclofen use: A case report","authors":"Merve Akkuş","doi":"10.1111/bdi.13431","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bdi.13431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8959,"journal":{"name":"Bipolar Disorders","volume":"26 6","pages":"633-636"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140675552","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}
Aswin Ratheesh, Maria Speed, Estela Salagre, Michael Berk, Christopher Rohde, Søren Dinesen Østergaard
{"title":"Prior psychiatric morbidity and differential psychopharmacological treatment patterns: Exploring the heterogeneity of bipolar disorder in a nationwide study of 9594 patients","authors":"Aswin Ratheesh, Maria Speed, Estela Salagre, Michael Berk, Christopher Rohde, Søren Dinesen Østergaard","doi":"10.1111/bdi.13432","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bdi.13432","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objectives</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Individuals with bipolar disorders (BD) have heterogenic pre-onset illness courses and responses to treatment. The pattern of illness preceding the diagnosis of BD may be a marker of future treatment response. Here, we examined associations between psychiatric morbidity preceding the diagnosis of BD and pharmacological treatment patterns in the 2 years following diagnosis.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In this register-based study, we included all patients with a diagnosis of BD attending Danish Psychiatric Services between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2016. We examined the association between a diagnosis of substance use disorder, psychosis (other than schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder), unipolar depression, anxiety/OCD, PTSD, personality disorder, or ADHD preceding BD and pharmacological treatment patterns following the diagnosis of BD (lithium, valproate, lamotrigine, antidepressants, olanzapine, risperidone, and quetiapine) via multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression adjusted for age, sex, and year of BD diagnosis.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We included 9594 patients with a median age of 39 years, 58% of whom were female. Antidepressants, quetiapine, and lamotrigine were the most commonly used medications in BD and were all linked to prior depressive illness and female sex. Lithium was used among patients with less diagnostic heterogeneity preceding BD, while valproate was more likely to be used for patients with prior substance use disorder or ADHD.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The pharmacological treatment of BD is linked to psychiatric morbidity preceding its diagnosis. Assuming that these associations reflect well-informed clinical decisions, this knowledge may inform future clinical trials by taking participants' prior morbidity into account in treatment allocation.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8959,"journal":{"name":"Bipolar Disorders","volume":"26 6","pages":"570-583"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bdi.13432","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140673421","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":"A new model for the prevention of suicide in bipolar disorder: Every patient, every setting, every provider","authors":"Ayal Schaffer, Gin S. Malhi","doi":"10.1111/bdi.13442","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bdi.13442","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8959,"journal":{"name":"Bipolar Disorders","volume":"26 4","pages":"309-312"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140678842","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}