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Combining Medication Treatment and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Bipolar Disorder
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Bipolar disorder (BPD) is a severe, recurrent psychiatric illness characterized by a chronic course of vacillating episodes of major depression and mania that impair functioning across many psychosocial domains ( DSM-IV; DSM-IV-TR ). Within each type of episode, changes occur in mood, cognitive processing, and regulation of vegetative functioning. Typical mood shifts include sadness (in depression) or euphoria (in mania). Either state can produce irritability, anxiety, and anger. In addition,...
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In focus: Bipolar disorder
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
; 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, when Beach Boy Brian Wilson
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Evaluating children for bipolar disorder: symptoms similar to ADHD make the diagnostic process critical.
Behavioral Health Management
; Perhaps no area in child psychiatryprovides as much debate and clinical interest as the accurate diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder (BPD) in children and adolescents. Part of the controversy involves the substantial overlap of BPD and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
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Combining Medication Treatment and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Bipolar Disorder
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy
; Bipolar disorder (BPD) is a severe, recurrent psychiatric illness characterized by a chronic course of vacillating episodes of major depression and mania that impair functioning across many psychosocial domains ( DSM-IV; DSM-IV-TR ). Within each type of episode, changes occur in mood, cognitive
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Bipolar Disorder; Facts to Know.(Disease/Disorder overview)
NWHRC Health Center - Bipolar Disorder
; Bipolar disorder involves episodes of mania and depression. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about 2.3 million American adults, or one percent of the population age 18 and older in any given year, suffer from bipolar disorder. Most people with bipolar disorder can expect that
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Bipolar disorder remains a conundrum.(Behavioral Consult)(bipolar disorder in children)
Pediatric News
; When I was in training during the 1970s, we did not diagnose bipolar disorder in children. We rarely diagnosed depression in prepubertal children, although we eventually learned that depression is common in the pediatric population. Even today, depression in this age group is underdiagnosed. When
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Forum focuses on bipolar disorder
Michigan Chronicle
; Keating, Patrick Michigan Chronicle 12-07-2004 Lizzie Simon, author of "Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D," was the featured speaker at a recent forum entitled "Detour to Wellness," a national campaign designed to educate people about bipolar disorder and to provide support and inspiration to
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How Well Do Psychosocial Interventions Work in Bipolar Disorder?
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
; Objective: Although medication is the mainstay of treatment for bipolar disorder, several adjunctive psychosocial interventions have been manualized over the last decade. This paper's objective is to empirically evaluate the different treatment approaches. Method: We conducted a systematic review
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Bipolar Disorder in Childhood and Early Adolescence
American Journal of Psychotherapy
; BARBARA GELLER AND MELISSA P. DELBELLO (Eos Bipolar Disorder in Childhood and Early Adolescence. Guilford Press, New York, 2003, 342 pp., $36.00, ISBN 1-57230-837-0. There has been substantial controversy in the mental health field about the existence and diagnostic boundary of childhood (i.e.,
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Bipolar Disorder; Overview.(Disease/Disorder overview)
NWHRC Health Center - Bipolar Disorder
; Bipolar disorder, is one of the most distinct and dramatic of mental illnesses. It is characterized by intense episodes of elation or irritability and despair, with any combination of mood experiences in between, including periods of normal moods. Mood changes are accompanied by changes in
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Response to Miami Shooting: What Families & Friends Can Do To Help Someone with Bipolar Disorder
U.S. Newswire
; WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The shooting of Rigoberto Alpizar in Miami on Dec. 7 has left many people wondering what bipolar disorder really is and how they can help someone with bipolar disorder get well. "It is really important for family members and friends to understand what they
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