Bipolar Disorder: A Case of Bad Genes? December 13‚ 2011 Abstract Bipolar disorder‚ formerly known as manic depression‚ is a mood disorder in which a person experiences alternating episodes of both depression and mania. Bipolar disorder affects 1 in 100 people in the world. Throughout history‚ scientists and physicians have tried to find the exact cause of the disorder‚ but only in the last 30 years been able to confirm genetics as a culprit. Advances in research have enabled scientists
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Copyright ª Blackwell Munksgaard 2005 Bipolar Disorders 2005: 7(Suppl. 3): 5–69 BIPOLAR DISORDERS Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: consensus and controversies Yatham LN‚ Kennedy SH‚ O’Donovan C‚ Parikh S‚ MacQueen G‚ McIntyre R‚ Sharma V‚ Silverstone P‚ Alda M‚ Baruch P‚ Beaulieu S‚ Daigneault A‚ Milev R‚ Young T‚ Ravindran A‚ Schaffer A‚ Connolly M‚ Gorman CP. Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments
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Schizophrenia Definition Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that generally appears in late adolescence or early adulthood - however‚ it can emerge at any time in life. It is one of many brain diseases that may include delusions‚ loss of personality (flat affect)‚ confusion‚ agitation‚ social withdrawal‚ psychosis‚ and bizarre behavior. Individuals with schizophrenia may hear voices that are not there. Some may be convinced that others are reading their minds‚ controlling how they think‚ or plotting
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Virginia Quintana HSM 120 Fall 2‚ 2013 Research Paper A Relationship between Bipolar Disorder and Childhood Sexual Abuse Ever felt extremely happy one day and terribly depressed the next‚ as if you were on an emotional roller coaster? How about spontaneously spending $5‚000 on a shopping spree that you have no use for? Imagine being so depressed that you want to commit suicide because dinner was not the meal you had in mind. Each of these actions may seem completely farfetched to the average
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Introduction Bipolar disorder is a disorder associated with episodes of mood swings going from depressive lows to manic highs. There is a controversy with bipolar disorder in youth causing difficulty in diagnosing. However‚ bipolar disorder is considered to be a repetitive familial disorder that occurs in 1-3% of youth‚ but mainly in adolescents prevalence “ The prevalence of the Bp spectrum disorders in youth is on average 1.8% and for Bp-1 1.2% with rates of BP-1 being consistent amoung most
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Abstract This paper will be discussing Bipolar Disorder. It will cover some of today’s diagnosis methods and treatment. The treatments covered will involve psychotherapy and antidepressant drugs. Bipolar Disorder Many refer to Bipolar Disorder as manic-depressive disorder. This disorder causes people to swing from very low depressive states to extreme highs of “mania.” When people are depressed they may feel sad‚ hopeless and lose interest in everyday activities. However‚ when their mood shifts
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Bipolar Research paper Bipolar Disorder P. 1 Of the literal hundreds of mental disorders with which people must contend‚ few are as misrepresented as Bipolar Disorder. Fewer yet have such a social stigma bound to them. The actuality of the disorder seems to be lost somewhere between rushed diagnoses and an uniformed public. This is especially an issue as BPD knows no racial‚ social‚ or ethnic boundaries. Even those in high standing can be affected by BPD. One such case of this was Kurt Cobain’s
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BIPOLAR DISORDER CASE 10 ANS no 1 Patients with bipolar disorder may be noncompliant with drug therapy for a number of reasons‚ including denial or failure to believe that they have an emotional disorder ‚reluctance to give up the pleasurable experience of mania‚ and drug side effects. Ego plays a large role - there is a tremendous amount of hubris and grandiosity among bipolars in the early phases of recovery - such an ego recoils at the affront of being told
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Bipolar Disorder: Prevalence of Misdiagnoses & Comorbidity Liberty University Abstract Bipolar disorder is a complex and disabling psychiatric disorder that has been frequently misdiagnosed for years (Ghaemi‚ Ko‚ & Goodwin‚ 2002). The most current research suggests that 69 percent of those who have bipolar disorder were initially misdiagnosed (Tracy‚ 2013). A common challenge clinicians face when attempting to accurately diagnosis bipolar disorder is the factor of comorbidity
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Unipolar Depression Unipolar depression is a mood disorder that is characterized by depression without mania. Depression and mania are the opposite of each other; depression is a sad sate that one is overwhelmed by all of life’s challenges and mania is when one is on a state of euphoria and has exaggerated beliefs that the world is theirs. Unipolar can be brought on by many different circumstances. Symptoms Symptoms vary from individual to individual but they will affect these five areas of
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