Bipolar Disorder

Psychotic-like experiences, circadian disturbances, poorer social function and manic-like experiences were linked to illness progression in a longitudinal cohort study of youth who presented to early intervention services for psychiatric disorders.

Results from a meta-analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry support delay discounting — a type of decision-making tied to impulsivity — as a robust transdiagnostic process across many different psychiatric disorders.

Study findings published in PLOS Biology indicated that air pollution was significantly linked to increased risk for psychiatric disorders in the United States and Denmark.

Researchers found overlap between ADHD and hypomanic symptoms across childhood and adolescence, which appears to reflect a genetic link between these phenotypes, according to findings from a Swedish twin cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

The prevalence of metabolic syndrome among young people with bipolar disorder was about quadruple that of the general population, researchers reported in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.