• emphasis of the treatment of bipolar disorder is on effective management of the long-term course of the illness, which can involve treatment of emergent...
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    Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression or manic depressive disorder, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of depression and periods...
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  • Bipolar I disorder (BD-I; pronounced "type one bipolar disorder") is a type of bipolar spectrum disorder characterized by the occurrence of at least one...
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  • Bipolar II disorder (BP-II) is a mood disorder on the bipolar spectrum, characterized by at least one episode of hypomania and at least one episode of...
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  • Schizoaffective disorder is a mental disorder characterized by symptoms of both schizophrenia (psychosis) and a mood disorder - either bipolar disorder or depression...
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    disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), anxiety disorders, and childhood bipolar disorder, intermittent explosive disorder (IED),...
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    Bipolar disorder in children, or pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD), is a rare mental disorder in children and adolescents. The diagnosis of bipolar disorder...
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  • Cyclothymia (redirect from Bipolar III)
    as cyclothymic disorder, psychothemia / psychothymia, bipolar III, affective personality disorder and cyclothymic personality disorder, is a mental and...
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  • an important role in the etiology and maintenance of bipolar disorder. Patients with bipolar disorder often have a less stable and more variable circadian...
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  • depression.[citation needed] Even today, lithium is used as a treatment to bipolar disorder which is significant because lithium could have been an ingredient...
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    than one mood disorder can be present in an individual, like bipolar disorder and depressive disorder.[citation needed] Mood disorders may also be substance...
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  • Bipolar disorder NOS is sometimes referred to as subthreshold bipolar disorder. BD-NOS is a mood disorder and one of four subtypes on the bipolar spectrum...
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  • Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy (category Treatment of bipolar disorder)
    with bipolar disorder (BD). Its primary focus is stabilizing the circadian rhythm disruptions that are common among people with bipolar disorder (BD)...
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    schizoaffective disorder. Mood stabilizers are best known for the treatment of bipolar disorder, preventing mood shifts to mania (or hypomania) and depression...
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    bipolar disorder and for major depressive disorder. Lithium is taken orally (by mouth). Common side effects include increased urination, shakiness of...
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  • Epigenetics of bipolar disorder is the effect that epigenetics has on triggering and maintaining bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is a chronic mood disorder, characterized...
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  • The Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) is a self-report questionnaire designed to help detect bipolar disorder. It focuses on symptoms of hypomania and...
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  • psychotic disorder, whereas, bipolar disorder is a primary mood disorder which can also involve psychosis. Both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are characterized...
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  • an overview of and topical guide to bipolar disorder: Bipolar disorder – mental disorder with cyclical periods of depression and periods of elevated mood...
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    some form of mood disorder. This is a list of people accompanied by verifiable sources associating them with some form of bipolar disorder (formerly known...
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    for the treatment of schizophrenia, depressive disorders, and bipolar disorder and in the Chinese literature, ECT is an effective treatment for schizophrenia...
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  • holidays in the lithium treatment of bipolar disorder, known as "lithium-free days", have been in use since the pioneering work of Noack and Trautner in...
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    commonly classified as a "mood stabilizer" and often used for the treatment of bipolar disorder. For PPP, lithium can be administered as a medication by itself...
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    Lamotrigine (category Drugs with unknown mechanisms of action)
    in bipolar disorder. For epilepsy, this includes focal seizures, tonic-clonic seizures, and seizures in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. In bipolar disorder, lamotrigine...
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    Acetylcysteine (category Treatment of bipolar disorder)
    including bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and schizophrenia. Tentative evidence exists for N-acetylcysteine also in the treatment of Alzheimer's...
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    Mania (redirect from Manic disorder)
    majority of cases occur in the context of bipolar disorder, it is a key component of other psychiatric disorders (such as schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type)...
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    or bipolar disorders, substance use disorders, eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)...
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  • Thumbnail for Biology of bipolar disorder
    Bipolar disorder is an affective disorder characterized by periods of elevated and depressed mood. The cause and mechanism of bipolar disorder is not yet...
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    many as 20% may have a bipolar disorder. It is important to distinguish between diagnoses because there are important treatment differences. In these cases...
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    other psychiatric mood disturbances, including major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder and postpartum depression. A meta-analysis by the Cochrane Collaboration...
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