Bipolar disorder (BD) is a severe mental illness characterised by recurrent episodes of mania, depression or mixed states.1,2The lifetime prevalence of the full spectrum of bipolar disorder is estimated to be 2–4% in the general population and it is the sixth leading cause of disability worl...
Many applications are available today to monitor bipolar disorder away from medical settings that require active patient participation. These include validated products for mood charting such as the ChronoRecord on a computer (Bauer et al.2004; Bauer et al.2008), the Life-Chart on a smartphone an...
Liliana Dell’Osso 1004Accesses Abstract In recent years, epidemiologic research has consistently documented a significant clustering of medical and psychiatric conditions. In most cases, this comorbidity has been shown to enhance morbidity, loss of quality of life, and mortality, presenting a considerabl...
Hillegers, M.H.J.; Burger, H.; Wals, M.; Reichart, C.G.; Verhulst, F.C.; Nolen, W.A.; Ormel, J. Impact of stressful life events, familial loading and their interaction on the onset of mood disorders: Study in a high-risk cohort of adolescent offspring of parents with bipolar...