Bipolar Disorder - Diagnosis
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Bipolar II postpartum depression: Detection, diagnosis, and treatment.

30 Oct 2009 Research on postpartum mood disorders has focused primarily on major depressive disorder, bipolar I disorder, and puerperal psychosis and has largely ignored or neglected bipolar II disorder. Hypomanic symptoms are common after delivery but ... Read more...

Anxiety and outcome in bipolar disorder.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Important differences exist between bipolar disorder with and without comorbid anxiety, but little is known about the long-term prognostic significance of coexisting anxiety in bipolar disorder. The authors sought to identify the anxiety ... Read more...

A reverse-translational study of dysfunctional exploration in psychiatric disorders: from mice to men.

29 Sep 2009 CONTEXT: Bipolar mania and schizophrenia are recognized as separate disorders but share many commonalities, which raises the question of whether they are the same disorder on different ends of a continuum. The lack of distinct endophenotypes of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Bipolar Disorder - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Bipolar II postpartum depression: Detection, diagnosis, and treatment. 30 Oct 2009
• Postpartum mood disorders: genetic progress and treatment paradigms. 30 Oct 2009
• Anxiety and outcome in bipolar disorder. 29 Sep 2009
• A reverse-translational study of dysfunctional exploration in psychiatric disorders: from mice to men. 29 Sep 2009
• Genome-wide linkage and follow-up association study of postpartum mood symptoms. 13 Sep 2009
• Acute psychiatric illness in a young woman: an unusual form of encephalitis. 5 Sep 2009
• Dissociable brain structural changes associated with predisposition, resilience, and disease expression in bipolar disorder. 31 Aug 2009
• Cardiovascular disease and hypertension among adults with bipolar I disorder in the United States. 30 Aug 2009
• Can body mass index help predict outcome in patients with bipolar disorder? 30 Aug 2009
• Mood episodes and mood disorders: patterns of incidence and conversion in the first three decades of life. 30 Aug 2009
• An initial report of a new biological marker for bipolar disorder: P85 evoked brain potential. 30 Aug 2009
• Diagnosis and impact of bipolar depression. 30 Aug 2009
• Exploring clinical characteristics of bipolar depression: internal structure of the bipolar depression rating scale. 30 Aug 2009
• Validity and reliability of the Hamilton depression rating scale (5 items) for manic and mixed bipolar disorders. 30 Aug 2009
• Specificities of defense mechanisms in bipolar affective disorder: relations with symptoms and therapeutic alliance. 30 Aug 2009
• Impact of multifamily psychoeducational psychotherapy in treating children aged 8 to 12 years with mood disorders. 30 Aug 2009
• The Bipolar Interactive Psychoeducation (BIPED) study: trial design and protocol. 10 Aug 2009
• A model of the economic impact of a bipolar disorder screening program in primary care. 9 Aug 2009
• Mood stabilization and destabilization during acute and continuation phase treatment for bipolar I disorder with lamotrigine or placebo. 9 Aug 2009
• Mental health treatment received by youths in the year before and after a new diagnosis of bipolar disorder. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Bipolar Disorder'

Definition: A major affective disorder marked by severe mood swings (manic or major depressive episodes) and a tendency to remission and recurrence.

Descriptor UI: D001714

Alternative terms: Bipolar Disorder; Bipolar Disorders; Disorder, Bipolar; Psychosis, Manic-Depressive; Psychosis, Manic Depressive; Manic-Depressive Psychosis; Manic Depressive Psychosis; Affective Psychosis, Bipolar; Bipolar Affective Psychosis; Psychoses, Bipolar Affective; Psychosis, Bipolar Affective; Psychoses, Manic-Depressive; Manic-Depressive Psychoses; Psychoses, Manic Depressive; Mania; Manias; Manic State; Manic States; State, Manic; States, Manic; Depression, Bipolar; Bipolar Depression; Manic Disorder; Disorder, Manic; Manic Disorders;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.600.150.150;

History Note: 81(63)