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(1)H-MRS of hippocampus in patients after first manic episode

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A 1HMRS study of the anterior cingulate gyrus in euthymic bipolar patients

scientific article published in June 2006

A comparison of the symptomatic profile between two consecutive depressive episodes in patients with bipolar disorder type I.

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A quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study of caudate and lenticular nucleus gray matter volume in primary unipolar major depression: relationship to treatment response and clinical severity

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

A quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study of cerebral and cerebellar gray matter volume in primary unipolar major depression: relationship to treatment response and clinical severity

scientific article published in July 1997

A randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioral group therapy for bipolar disorder.

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A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, proof-of-concept trial of creatine monohydrate as adjunctive treatment for bipolar depression

scientific article published on 24 November 2017

A review on shared clinical and molecular mechanisms between bipolar disorder and frontotemporal dementia

scientific article published on 20 April 2019

A sib-pair analysis of impulsivity in bipolar disorder type I.

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Abnormal resting state corticolimbic blood flow in depressed unmedicated patients with major depression: a (15)O-H(2)O PET study

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Aerobic exercise program with or without motor complexity as an add-on to the pharmacological treatment of depression - study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 10 October 2018

Affective cognition in bipolar disorder: A systematic review by the ISBD targeting cognition task force

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Analysis of a novel functional polymorphism within the promoter region of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTT) in Brazilian patients affected by bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

scientific article published in May 1998

Anterior Cingulate Cortex Glutamatergic Metabolites and Mood Stabilizers in Euthymic Bipolar I Disorder Patients: A Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study

scientific article published on 31 March 2018

Antidepressant treatment-emergent affective switch in bipolar disorder: a prospective case-control study of outcome

scientific article published on 01 December 2006

Are comorbid anxiety disorders a risk factor for suicide attempts in patients with mood disorders? A two-year prospective study

scientific article published on 29 September 2017

Assessing and addressing cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder: the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Targeting Cognition Task Force recommendations for clinicians.

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

Association between duration of untreated bipolar disorder and clinical outcome: data from a Brazilian sample.

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Association between family history of mood disorders and clinical characteristics of bipolar disorder: results from the Brazilian bipolar research network

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Association between history of suicide attempts and family functioning in bipolar disorder

scientific article published on 12 December 2015

Association between solar insolation and a history of suicide attempts in bipolar I disorder

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Attention-based classification pattern, a research domain criteria framework, in youths with bipolar disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

scientific article published on 12 November 2014

Basal ganglia choline levels in depression and response to fluoxetine treatment: an in vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study

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Bipolar Mixed States: An International Society for Bipolar Disorders Task Force Report of Symptom Structure, Course of Illness, and Diagnosis

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Bipolar disorder and comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder is associated with higher rates of anxiety and impulse control disorders

scientific article published in April 2010

Bipolar disorder comorbid with alcoholism: a 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy study

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Brain Aging in Major Depressive Disorder: Results from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group

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Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Brain glutamate levels measured by magnetic resonance spectroscopy in patients with bipolar disorder: a meta-analysis

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Brazilian psychiatric brain bank: a new contribution tool to network studies

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Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) 2018 guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder.

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) collaborative update of CANMAT guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: update 2013.

scientific article published on 12 December 2012

Cardiovascular risk factors in outpatients with bipolar disorder: a report from the Brazilian Research Network in Bipolar Disorder

scientific article published in April 2013

Caregiver burden in older adults with bipolar disorder: relationship to functionality and neuropsychiatric symptoms

scientific article published on 27 January 2017

Caregiver burden regarding elderly with bipolar disorder: An underrecognized problem

scientific article published on 07 November 2017

Changes in regional cerebral blood flow following light treatment for seasonal affective disorder: responders versus nonresponders

scientific article published in December 1997

Choline in the treatment of rapid-cycling bipolar disorder: clinical and neurochemical findings in lithium-treated patients

scientific article published in September 1996

Chronic mood instability: Bipolar, borderline, or both?

scientific article published on 11 October 2018

Clinical correlates of eating disorder comorbidity in women with bipolar disorder type I.

scientific article published on 10 November 2010

Clinical significance of lifetime panic disorder in the course of bipolar disorder type I.

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Cognitive behavioral rehabilitation for bipolar disorder patients: A randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

Cognitive effects of creatine monohydrate adjunctive therapy in patients with bipolar depression: Results from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published on 20 November 2016

Cognitive impairments and predominant polarity in bipolar disorder: a cross-sectional study.

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Cognitive outcomes of TMS treatment in bipolar depression: Safety data from a randomized controlled trial.

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Cognitive-behavioral rehabilitation vs. treatment as usual for bipolar patients: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published on 28 March 2017

Comment on Tükel et al., "The clinical impact of mood disorder comorbidity on obsessive-compulsive disorder" (Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 256(4):240-245)

scientific article published on 05 December 2006

Comorbidity of anorexia nervosa and bipolar disorder in early adolescence

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder: an MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group

scientific article published on 2 May 2017

Cytokines in bipolar disorder: recent findings, deleterious effects but promise for future therapeutics.

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Decreased Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Older Adults with Bipolar Disorder

scientific article published on 15 March 2016

Decreased mRNA expression of uncoupling protein 2, a mitochondrial proton transporter, in post-mortem prefrontal cortex from patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

scientific article published on 4 October 2011

Depression and cardiovascular risk factors: evidence from a large postmortem sample.

scientific article published on 29 June 2012

Dysfunctional family environment in affected versus unaffected offspring of parents with bipolar disorder

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Effect of abrupt change from standard to low serum levels of lithium: a reanalysis of double-blind lithium maintenance data

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Efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy in treatment-resistant bipolar disorder: a case series.

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Emotion Regulation and Bipolar Disorder: Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

scientific article published on 26 September 2020

Erratum to: Online information seeking by patients with bipolar disorder: results from an international multisite survey

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Facial emotion recognition in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder and their unaffected first-degree relatives

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

Glutathione-mediated effects of lithium in decreasing protein oxidation induced by mitochondrial complex I dysfunction

scientific article published on 27 September 2014

Gray matter abnormalities as brain structural vulnerability factors for bipolar disorder: A review of neuroimaging studies of individuals at high genetic risk for bipolar disorder

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Gray matter volumes in patients with bipolar disorder and their first-degree relatives

scientific article published on 9 September 2015

Hippocampal volume in primary unipolar major depression: a magnetic resonance imaging study.

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Impact of comorbid migraine on the clinical course of bipolar disorder

scientific article published on 20 November 2011

Impact of predominant polarity on long-term outcome in bipolar disorder: A 7-year longitudinal cohort study

scientific article published in December 2018

Impact of sunlight on the age of onset of bipolar disorder

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Increased illness burden in women with comorbid bipolar and premenstrual dysphoric disorder: data from 1 099 women from STEP-BD study.

scientific article published on 28 August 2017

Influence of birth cohort on age of onset cluster analysis in bipolar I disorder.

scientific article published on 12 December 2014

Influence of light exposure during early life on the age of onset of bipolar disorder

scientific article published on 27 March 2015

Influence of phototherapy treatment duration for seasonal affective disorder: outcome at one vs. two weeks

scientific article published in December 1995

Initial findings of striatum tripartite model in OCD brain samples based on transcriptome analysis

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

International multi-site survey on the use of online support groups in bipolar disorder

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Internet use by older adults with bipolar disorder: international survey results

Internet use by patients with bipolar disorder: Results from an international multisite survey

scientific article published on 02 June 2016

Layer-specific reduced neuronal density in the orbitofrontal cortex of older adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder

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Lifetime history of suicide attempts is associated with poorer social skills in patients with bipolar disorder type I.

scientific article published in June 2010

Lithium-associated anterior cingulate neurometabolic profile in euthymic Bipolar I disorder: A 1H-MRS study

scientific article published on 10 August 2018

Long-acting injectable antipsychotics for the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder

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Long-acting injectable risperidone in a bipolar patient submitted to bariatric surgery and intolerant to conventional mood stabilizers

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Longitudinal follow-up of bipolar disorder in women with premenstrual exacerbation: findings from STEP-BD.

scientific article published on 15 February 2011

Low brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels in post-mortem brains of older adults with depression and dementia in a large clinicopathological sample

scientific article published on 09 August 2018

Lower N-acetyl-aspartate levels in prefrontal cortices in pediatric bipolar disorder: a ¹H magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.

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Magnetic Seizure Therapy for Unipolar and Bipolar Depression: A Systematic Review.

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

Major depression and the basal ganglia ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 1997

Medial temporal lobe abnormalities in pediatric unipolar depression.

scientific article published on 16 June 2007

Metabolic syndrome and bipolar disorder: what should psychiatrists know?

scientific article published on 26 February 2011

Methodological recommendations for cognition trials in bipolar disorder by the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Targeting Cognition Task Force.

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Morphometric post-mortem studies in bipolar disorder: possible association with oxidative stress and apoptosis.

scientific article published on 23 December 2010

Negative early life experiences as risk factors for suicidal behavior in bipolar disorders

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Negative expressed emotion best discriminates families with bipolar disorder children

scientific article published on 4 December 2012

Neither bipolar nor obsessive-compulsive disorder: compulsive buyers are impulsive acquirers

scientific article published on 17 November 2011

Neuropathological relationship between major depression and dementia: A hypothetical model and review.

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Neuropsychiatric Inventory in Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Nutrition and bipolar disorder: a systematic review

scientific article published on 24 May 2022

Obesity and metabolic syndrome in Brazilian patients with bipolar disorder.

scientific article published in April 2009

Online information seeking by patients with bipolar disorder: results from an international multisite survey

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Optimal duration of risperidone or olanzapine adjunctive therapy to mood stabilizer following remission of a manic episode: A CANMAT randomized double-blind trial.

scientific article published on 13 October 2015

Personality traits in bipolar disorder type I: a sib-pair analysis

scientific article published on 01 November 2011

Predominant polarity classification and associated clinical variables in bipolar disorder: A machine learning approach

scientific article published on 06 November 2018

Preserved white matter in unmedicated pediatric bipolar disorder

scientific article published on 10 July 2014

Prevalence and clinical correlates of alcohol use disorders among bipolar disorder patients: results from the Brazilian Bipolar Research Network

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Psychiatric and clinical correlates of rapid cycling bipolar disorder: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 14 June 2016

Quality of life in youth with bipolar disorder and unaffected offspring of parents with bipolar disorder

scientific article published on 24 May 2016

RBP aumenta seu fator de impacto

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

RBP implementa um novo sistema de submissão de manuscritos

RBP is the Latin American medical journal with the highest Impact Factor

scientific article published in September 2008

Rapid cycling bipolar disorder - diagnostic concepts

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Rapid cycling bipolar disorder is associated with a higher lifetime prevalence of migraine

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Relationship between sunlight and the age of onset of bipolar disorder: an international multisite study

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Review of the guidelines of the Brazilian Medical Association for the treatment of depression (Complete version)

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Revising Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, criteria for the bipolar disorders: Phase I of the AREDOC project

Revising Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, criteria for the bipolar disorders: Phase I of the AREDOC project

Serum BDNF levels in unaffected first-degree relatives of patients with bipolar disorder

scientific article published on 5 February 2016

Social dysfunction in bipolar disorder: pilot study

scientific article published in August 2008

Success in publication by graduate students in psychiatry in Brazil: an empirical evaluation of the relative influence of English proficiency and advisor expertise

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Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in bipolar disorder type I: an update for the clinician

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Suicidality induced by steroid treatment

scientific article published in May 2009

Suicide attempts are associated with worse quality of life in patients with bipolar disorder type I.

scientific article published on 6 May 2011

The International Consortium Investigating Neurocognition in Bipolar Disorder ( ICONIC ‐ BD )

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

The International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) task force report on antidepressant use in bipolar disorders

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The association between social skills deficits and family history of mood disorder in bipolar I disorder

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

The bipolar depression electrical treatment trial (BETTER): design, rationale, and objectives of a randomized, sham-controlled trial and data from the pilot study phase

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The influence of DST and TRH test administration on depression assessments: a controlled study

scientific article published on 01 November 1993

The role of Wnt signaling and its interaction with diverse mechanisms of cellular apoptosis in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder.

scientific article published on 07 September 2010

Therapeutic potential of interleukin-6 antagonism in bipolar disorder

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

Treatment emergent affective switch with topiramate

scientific article published on 26 June 2006

Treatment emergent affective switch: a controlled study

scientific article published in August 2004

Treatment of Bipolar Depression with Deep TMS: Results from a Double-Blind, Randomized, Parallel Group, Sham-Controlled Clinical Trial

scientific article published in February 2017

Valproate-induced reversible pseudoatrophy of the brain and hyperammonemic encephalopathy in a bipolar patient

Variability of brain lithium levels during maintenance treatment: a magnetic resonance spectroscopy study

scientific article published on 01 October 1995

Verbal fluency dysfunction in euthymic bipolar patients: a controlled study

scientific article published on 22 August 2007

What we learn about bipolar disorder from large-scale neuroimaging: Findings and future directions from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

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