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Bipolar Disorder
Coordinator: Eduard Vieta Pascual (Hospital Clínico y Provincial de Barcelona)
Some of the most relevant results of the groups forming this programme are the 28 articles in the first decile. The findings of these studies have been published in journals of the greatest reputation such as The Lancet, Molecular Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry, Psychological, Medicine, Schizophrenia Bulletin and Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, amongst others.
The bipolar disorder programme works with a high degree of internationalisation and scientific productivity. In 2016 we should stress the cooperation work between CIBERSAM groups and other CIBERs, as well as national and international collaboration.
The groups in the bipolar programme have furthermore carried out 16 projects in 2016 with competitive financing from public bodies (MINECO- Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Basque Authority,
Universidad del País Vasco, Generalitat Valenciana).
Some of the awards and distinctions received by members of the programme are detailed below:
• 1st prize for the best international articles at the Jornadas de Investigación 2016 of the Hospital Universitario Araba: Efficacy and safety of ketamine in bipolar depression: a systematic review Susana Alberich, Mónica Martínez-Cengotitabengoa, Purificación López, Iñaki Zorrilla, Nuria Núnez, Eduard Vieta and Ana González-Pinto. Revista de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental 2016 Jul 4.
• Award for the best poster presentation in Neuropsicofarmacología of the SEPB. XIX Congreso Nacional de Psiquiatría. Is lithium able to prevent depressive/mixed episodes in real life? Results after 10 years’ follow-up. Dr Mónica Martínez-Cengotitabengoa.
• Dr Ana González-Pinto was appointed president of the Sociedad Española de Psiquiatría Biológica (SEPB) and head of the bipolar disorder area of the CIBERSAM.
• Prize for Accredited Young Investigator, Sociedad Española de Psiquiatría Biológica going to Dr Iñaki Zorrilla.
• Prize for Accredited Young Investigator, Sociedad Española de Psiquiatría Biológica going to Dr Iria Grande.
• Dr Eduard Vieta, new scientific director of the CIBERSAM.
• Early career psychiatrists Scholarship Programme, European Psychiatric Association going to Dr Iria Grande.
• Honoris Causa award from the Universitat de Valencia going to Dr Eduard Vieta.
• Eduard Vieta appears in the list of researchers in the biomedical world most cited in scientific publications (Highly Cited Researchers 2016), which is drawn up by international agency Thomson Reuters, 2016.
• In 2016, the Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques de Catalunya i Balears awarded the Josep Trueta Prize for Scientific Research 2016 for scientific development and leadership to the Fundación FIDMAG Hermanas Hospitalarias.
Some of the more significant scientific achievements by the different groups in the programme are:
• Validation of the psychometric instrument (Strauss-Carpenter) for its use in bipolar disorder.
• Follow-up of patients with first bipolar episode: study of the prognosis, functionality and inflammatory factors.
• Diagnostic discrimination between Alzheimer’s disease and late-onset Bipolar Disorder.
• Participation in the publication of the clinical guide of the WHO mhGAP versión 2.0: This is an update of the WHO guide for treatment of mental and neurological disorders and substances in non-specialised care (http://www.who.int/mental_health/mhgap/en/).
• Activation of the web page www.bipogent.cat intended to give information and recruit patients and controls for the study financed by the ISCIII and CIBERSAM.
• Holding the II Intensive Course on Neurocognitive and Functional Evaluation of Patients with Serious
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