scholarly journals The Role of Clozapine as a Mood Regulator in the Treatment of Rapid Cycling Bipolar Affective Disorder

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oguzhan Kilincel ◽  
Senay Kilincel ◽  
Cem Gunduz ◽  
Sengul Cangur ◽  
Cengiz Akkaya
Keyword(s):  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Bipolar Affective Disorder ◽  
Rapid Cycling

Bipolar affective disorder in the postnatal period: investigating the role of sleep

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 568-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin L C Bilszta ◽  
Denny Meyer ◽  
Anne E Buist
Keyword(s):  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Bipolar Affective Disorder ◽  
Postnatal Period

Rapid-Cycling Affective Disorder in the Elderly: Clinical Subtype or Specific Course of Manic-Depressive Illness?

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Camus ◽  
Carlos Augusto de Mendonça Lima ◽  
Daniel Antonioli ◽  
Jean Wertheimer
Keyword(s):  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Bipolar Affective Disorder ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Rapid Cycling ◽  
Exact Test ◽  
Bipolar Illness ◽  
Fisher's Exact Test ◽  
Fisher’S Exact Test ◽  
Clinical Subtype

Rapid cycling is a relatively unusual presentation of bipolar affective disorder in the elderly. Four cases or rapid-cycling affective disorder (RCAD) in elderly women (aged 78-86 yr) are presented. Two patients began their bipolar illness in adulthood (aged 30 and 49 yr), and rapid cycles appeared secondarily in their elderly years (82 and 76 yr). The other two began their illness immediately with rapid cycles respectively at the age of 62 and 66. Added to the nine cases of RCAD in the elderly previously reported in the literature, a meta-analysis conducted on this small sample suggests that immediate entry in rapid cycles seems more likely to be associated with a late occurrence of bipolar illness (after 60 years of age) ( P = .0035, Fisher's Exact Test, two-tailed), and that very short cycles (< 2 weeks each) are more likely to be associated with female gender ( P = .0047, Fisher's Exact Test, two-tailed). Despite the small size of the sample, these results give some arguments to the hypothesis that RCAD is not a homogeneous syndrome but could be considered as a pattern of evolution, as well as clinical subtype, of the bipolar illness.

Shoplifting in the Mentally Ill: The role of bipolar affective disorder and mental retardation

2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel S Y Cheng ◽  
Candy Lin ◽  
Marcella L Y Fok ◽  
Chi-Ming Leung
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Matched Control ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Bipolar Affective Disorder ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Control Group ◽  
University Department

This study explores shoplifting behaviour in mentally ill patients, and evaluates the association between shoplifting and different mental illnesses in a local Chinese population. A comparison is made between shoplifting offenders and a matched control group of non-offenders among the psychiatric patients registered at a university department of psychiatry. Major depression, bipolar affective disorder (BAD) and mental retardation (MR) are the most common diagnoses among mentally ill shoplifters, while patients with a diagnosis of BAD or MR are at higher risk of committing an offence than patients with other diagnoses. Bipolar affective disorder has not been described as a risk factor for shoplifting behaviour in the psychiatric literature. Such a possibility should be seriously considered in the psychiatric assessment of shoplifting cases.

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