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Bipolar Disorder Summary
910 words, approx. 3 pages
Bipolar Disorder A condition (also called manic depression) characterized by extreme mood swings that alternate between depression and mania (a state of exaggerated elation and euphoria). According to the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH),...
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Bipolar Disorder Summary
570 words, approx. 2 pages
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depression, is a mental illness which causes extreme mood swings between mania (excessive euphoria) and depression, negatively impacting an individual's ability to function normally. Typically appearing in early...
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Bipolar Disorder Summary
570 words, approx. 2 pages
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depression, is a mental illness which causes extreme mood swings between mania (excessive euphoria) and depression, negativ ely impacting an individual's ability to function normally. Typically appearing in early...
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Bipolar Disorder Summary
2,089 words, approx. 7 pages
Bipolar disorder is a mental condition that usually involves extreme mood swings. A person with the condition may feel happy and excited at one moment and depressed the next. The disorder was once called manic-depression. Mania is a mental disorder...
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Bipolar disorder Information
9,982 words, approx. 33 pages
Bipolar disorder is not a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated mood, clinically referred to as mania. Individuals who...


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Alcohol Research & Health
Bipolar disorder and alcoholism.
03/22/2002: 5,120 words, approx. 17 pages
Bipolar disorder and alcoholism commonly co-occur. Multiple explanations for the relationship between these conditions have been proposed, but this relationship remains poorly understood. Some evidence suggests a genetic link. This comorbidity also has implications for diagnosis and treatment. Alcohol use may worsen the clinical...
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Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
In focus: Bipolar disorder
04/13/2006: 904 words, approx. 3 pages
Expert on mental illness answers questions from audience of 200 people Some may remember "Suddenly Susan" star David Strickland's 1999 suicide. Or when, in 1996, a delusional Margot Kidder was found filthy and roaming around a yard after a 10-day disappearance. Or 1978,...
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AP News
New bipolar disorder treatments tested
9/2/2007: 1,574 words, approx. 5 pages
Scientists are testing seasickness patches and other surprising options in a challenging search for new ways to treat the crushing depression and uncontrolled mania of bipolar disorder.Also called manic-depression, it's an illness that can rip careers and marriages apart and drive people to suicide. And...
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AP Features
Massachusetts mother charged with killing daughter says bipolar disorder diagnosis was wrong
9/28/2007: 313 words, approx. 1 pages
A mother charged with killing her 4-year-old daughter with an overdose of prescription drugs now believes her daughter was probably misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, she said in her first interview since her arrest.Carolyn Riley said she believed a psychiatrist's diagnosis of her daughter, Rebecca, but...
 


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The Bipolar Adolescent
1,169 words, approx. 4 pages
Bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic-depressive illness, is a mood disorder that affects many more children and adolescents than formerly known. Mania, hypomania, and depression are the general categories of symptoms involved in bipolar disorder.


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