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Knowing the Best Bipolar Medication
Looking through the evolution and development of bipolar disorder or also known as manic depression medications, you can say that they've changed dramatically but experts are still on the lookout for the best bipolar medication. Currently, bipolar patient...
New Bipolar Treatment Proves Patients Can Control Their Mania
In an exciting development concerning bipolar patients and their capacity to control their manic attacks, Australian researchers claim that they have developed a new procedure that can cut the number of manic episodes in their patients by 50%.Bipolar diso...
Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is known by many names. It is called as manic depressive disorder or bipolar affective disorder that causes shifts in person moods, energy and ability to work properly. As the name suggests, it is a depressive condition that usually unite...
Bipolar Blues: Regaining hope in the hopelessness
Bipolar Blues B Bipolar disorder (BD) is a very serious and under-recognized disorder that affects two-to-six percent of the population 1. Along with schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions, it is one of the few psychiatric disorders (at least its ma...
Impairment and Psychosocial Functioning in Bipolar Disorder
Researchers have been investigating whether cognitive impairments in bipolar disorder are the result of psychotropic medication or the illness itself. Results indicated deficits involving memory, processing rewards, and sensitivity to negative feedback. A...
Prozac for Bipolar Disorder, Bulimia, and Anxiety
Prozac is a medication often prescribed for bipolar disorder, bulimia, and anxiety disorders. The medication is highly effective because it acts as a serotonin inhibitor, which means that it helps balance serotonin levels in the brain. Serotonin levels ar...
Latest Medications for Bipolar Affective Disorder
Bipolar affective disorder, also known as manic depression disorder, is a mental illness that causes the patient to experience mood swings or mood cycling, involving depressive episodes, mania episodes, and/or mixed episodes. There are many treatment opti...
Treatments for Bipolar Disorder
There are many treatments available for bipolar disorder, ranging from medications to therapy. There are too many medications to be discussed here in depth. There are also many forms therapy can take, and techniques that can be learned to assist the patie...
Childhood Treatment Options for Bipolar Disorder
(ADHD). However, in recent years, psychiatrists and pediatricians have found that bipolar disorder definitely rears its ugly head in childhood as often as it does in adolescent or adult years.
Diagnosis of bipolar in childhood increases the chances for...
Borderline Personality Disorder VS Bipolar
Borderline personality disorder is actually less common and less known than bipolar. Borderline personality disorder accounts for only about twenty percent of hospitalizations for mental illness each year, while bipolar accounts for about fifty percent of...
Latest Medications for Bipolar Affective Disorder
Bipolar affective disorder, also known as manic depression disorder, is a mental illness that causes the patient to experience mood swings or mood cycling, involving depressive episodes, mania episodes, and/or mixed episodes. There are many treatment opti...
Childhood Treatment Options for Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder, or manic depression, has in past years only been found in adults, while children with similar symptoms have been mistakenly diagnosed as have attention deficit disorder (ADD), or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, ...
I am bipolar, will my children have it too?
If like me, you suffer from bipolar disorder, you will be aware of the fact that the illness tends to run in families, and are therefore worried about the possibility that your children may inherit the disorder.
Twin studies have shown that if one twin...
Psychotic Depression
Psychotic depression is estimated to affect one in every 250 people. People with this condition normally experience delusions which are beliefs or feelings that are not real. Bipolar patients may experience this condition during depressed states. Episodes...
Lamictal Can Help With Bipolar
Bipolar is a disorder that many people all over the world suffer from; some are already diagnosed with the disease but a lot of undiagnosed cases are also noted. What people should know is that bipolar disorder can worsen if it remains untreated. And the...
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