Research resources
Research podcasts
Piece of Mind: Mental Health and Psychiatry ‘Reducing the risk of suicide for people with bipolar disorder’
Professor Tania Gergel and Professor Ian Jones discuss the increased risk of suicide for people living with bipolar disorder, and what research is needed in this area.
Piece of Mind: Mental Health and Psychiatry ‘Have your voice heard in mental healthcare decisions’
Professor Tania Gergel explains how setting up an Advance Choice Document (ACD) gives you the opportunity to state your wishes and instructions about treatment and care during future episodes of illness.
BBC Radio 4 ‘Bound to the Mast’
Professor Sally Marlow explores why people with mental illness are committing themselves in advance, when well, to treatment that they know they may want to refuse when they become unwell.
Professor Allan Young speaks about bipolar
Co-chair of our Clinical Advisory Panel, Professor Allan Young, has been involved in three insightful podcasts exploring diagnosis, treatments and living well with bipolar. You can watch them here:
Research journal articles
Hypersexuality in Bipolar Disorder: Results from Patient Involvement Activities and a Large Quantitative Study
Written by a team at Cardiff University, supported by Dr Clare Dolman and the team at Bipolar UK, this article explores the results of a patient-led survey and a large systematic clinical study aimed to estimate the prevalence of hypersexuality in people with bipolar, its possible clinical links, and its impact on people living with the condition.
Suicide and bipolar disorder: opportunities to change the agenda
Professor Tania Gergel explores why suicide rates are so high in bipolar disorder, and what we can do about it.
Reducing the Delay in the Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder: a Qualitative Study
Professor Tania Gergel and a number of primary and secondary care clinicians across the UK, as part of the ASCEnD study, are calling for improved education, networks, clinical pathways, assessment/monitoring tools and communication in order to improve diagnosis in bipolar.
