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The borderlines of bipolar affective disorder
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2009AbstractThis paper provides an overview of the major studies of bipolar affective disorder (BAD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD), and assesses whether the disorders might be better understood as variants of the same basic disorder. There is a shortage of research that delineates the features of both disorders within their representative ...
Sharyn, Byrne, Anne, Jeffers
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The epidemiology of bipolar affective disorder
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 1995This paper reviews the current position of studies on the epidemiology of bipolar affective disorder. A disorder that cannot be recognized until sometime after its onset poses special difficulties for epidemiological study. These are discussed and attempts made to solve them.
P, Bebbington, R, Ramana
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Cutting Edge Psychiatry in Practice, 2013
Bipolar affective disorder is one of a group of mood disorders, which also includes unipolar depression and dysthymia. Bipolar disorder has been classified into two main subtypes, bipolar I and bipolar II. It is important to diagnose patients with the correct subtype of bipolar disorder, as treatment and management differs between the two. Misdiagnosis
Marina Mihaylova +2 more
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Bipolar affective disorder is one of a group of mood disorders, which also includes unipolar depression and dysthymia. Bipolar disorder has been classified into two main subtypes, bipolar I and bipolar II. It is important to diagnose patients with the correct subtype of bipolar disorder, as treatment and management differs between the two. Misdiagnosis
Marina Mihaylova +2 more
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Bipolar Affective Disorder and Alcoholism
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1974The author reports that the percentage of manic-depressive patients admitted to an acute care psychiatric service who were also diagnosed as alcoholic was not significantly different from the rate of alcoholism for the entire psychiatry service. Demographic factors, symptoms, and course of the affective illness did not distinguish alcoholic from ...
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Acetazolamide in Bipolar Affective Disorders
Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 1994Acetazolamide is a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor used for a variety of purposes, including adjunctively in the management of various types of epilepsy. A previous study on its psychotropic effects suggested the possibility of efficacy in atypical psychotic states, especially those characterized by cyclicity.
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InnovAiT: Education and inspiration for general practice, 2014
Bipolar affective disorder is a potentially life-long psychiatric illness that is characterised by episodic disturbances in mood between symptoms of mania and depression. The lifetime prevalence is estimated to be between 0.3 and 1.5% with a mean age of onset of 21 years old.
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Bipolar affective disorder is a potentially life-long psychiatric illness that is characterised by episodic disturbances in mood between symptoms of mania and depression. The lifetime prevalence is estimated to be between 0.3 and 1.5% with a mean age of onset of 21 years old.
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Misdiagnosis of Bipolar Affective Disorder as Personality Disorder
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1993Patients with longstanding recurrent behavioural disturbance, unstable interpersonal relationships and periodic affective symptoms are often diagnosed as having a cluster B personality disturbance using DSM-III-R criteria. Two women are described who were diagnosed as having a personality disorder on several admissions to hospital, but in whom closer ...
S P, Tyrer, A D, Brittlebank
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A molecular model for bipolar affective disorder
Medical Hypotheses, 1995The biological basis of bipolar disorder is not known. Models for the illness have been proposed that were based on the neurobiological effects of pharmacological agents that affect mood. Although of great interest, these models have not adequately explained the striking clinical pattern of illness in which patients may experience either unipolar ...
H M, Lachman, D F, Papolos
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Optometry - Journal of the American Optometric Association, 2009
Alexander K. C. Leung +62 more
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Striatopallidal regulation of affect in bipolar disorder
Journal of Affective Disorders, 2006Evidence from the neuroimaging literature suggests that the basal ganglia plays an important role in the regulation of affect. This conclusion stems almost exclusively from group comparisons and it remains unclear whether previous findings can be confirmed from a longitudinal study of mood change. The aim of this study was to increase our understanding
Michael P, Caligiuri +5 more
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