Bipolar Disorder

Studies from Taipei Medical University, Medical Department provide new data on bipolar disorder

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, January 14th, 2010

According to recent research published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, "The authors investigated the differences in cognitive function, medical burden, and sociodemographic characteristics between elderly community-dwelling bipolar patients and age-matched and education-matched normal individuals. Case control study."

"Taipei Medical University Hospital, with 75 psychiatric beds, and Taipei City Psychiatric Center-a 612-bed psychiatric teaching hospital providing comprehensive psychiatric services. Eighty-two euthymic outpatients with bipolar I disorder aged older than 60 years received assessment for research purpose, 59 of whom were matched...

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Source: Hospital Law Weekly (2010-01-14)

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