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One In Five Hospital Admissions Are For Patients With Mental Disorders, USA

Nov 2nd 2008Drug InformationBipolar

About 1.4 million hospitalizations in 2006 involved patients who were admitted for a mental illness, while another 7.1 million patients had a mental disorder in addition to the physical condition for which they were admitted, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The 8.5 million hospitalizations involving patients with mental illness represented about 22 percent of the overall 39.5 million hospitalizations in 2006.

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Bipolar Disorder Involves A Lower Quality Of Both Mental And Physical Life, Even In Periods Of Normality

Nov 2nd 2008Drug InformationBipolar

A study carried out in the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Granada (Spain) and the Mental Health Unit of the Hospital Neurotraumatológico of Jaen (Spain) has evaluated the quality of life of patients suffering from bipolar disorder (BD), in comparison with the general population, and which variables are connected with patients with a lower quality of life.

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During A Response-Imaging Task, MRI Brain Activity In First-Episode Bipolar Mania

Nov 2nd 2008Drug InformationBipolar

Impulsiveness can be a common feature of mania, particularly the inability to inhibit behavioral responses. This neuroimaging study examined bipolar patients during their first episode of mania to clarify the brain functioning associated with response inhibition in this early phase of illness. 16 first-episode bipolar patients and 16 healthy subjects were underwent functional MRI scanning (fMRI) while performing a response inhibition task.

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