Bipolar Disorder News

SAN DIEGO — Patients with MS were twice as likely to experience psychiatric morbidity, including depression and anxiety, in the prodromal phase compared with healthy controls, according to research presented at ACTRIMS 2023.

For informal caregivers of those hospitalized for mental illness, affiliated stigma was a full mediator between their role as caregiver and their involvement with patients, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.

For individuals prescribed antipsychotic medication, nonadherence, along with switching and stopping medication, was associated with increases in acute care utilization, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.

In children with familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, evidence of motor impairment skills may indicate neurodevelopmental vulnerability for psychosis.

The needs of families are largely unmet when a parent is hospitalized for a mental illness, with the need for a broad range of care models required to address these gaps, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.

A physician-owned acute care practice and a virtual psychiatry and therapy practice have announced a partnership that aims to provide comprehensive acute medical and psychiatric care services to EDs across the country.

New Directions Behavioral Health and Tridiuum have merged to form Lucet, a behavioral health optimization company.

The FDA has approved Rykindo for extended-release injectable suspension for the treatment of schizophrenia, as well as monotherapy or adjunctive therapy for the maintenance treatment of bipolar 1 disorder in adults.

Among children and adolescents in Israel, use of psychiatric emergency departments declined sharply during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to the year prior, according to a study in BMC Psychiatry.

Factors for risk for rehospitalization for those with psychiatric disorders included suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, previous hospitalization and longer stay in hospital, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.