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• bipolar disorder — n any of several mood disorders characterized usu. by alternating episodes of depression and mania or by episodes of depression alternating with mild nonpsychotic excitement called also bipolar affective disorder, bipolar illness, manic… …   Medical dictionary

• Bipolar disorder — Manic depression redirects here. For other uses, see Manic depression (disambiguation). Bipolar disorder Classification and external resources ICD 10 F …   Wikipedia

• Bipolar spectrum — The Bipolar spectrum refers to a category of mood disorders that feature abnormally elevated mood. These disorders range from Bipolar I disorder, featuring full blown manic episodes, to cyclothymia, featuring less prominent hypomanic episodes, to …   Wikipedia

• Bipolar disorders research — Bipolar disorder researchHeritability or inheritance of the illnessMore than two thirds of people with bipolar disorder have at least one close relative with the disorder or with unipolar major depression, indicating that the disease has a… …   Wikipedia

• Bipolar I disorder — is a mood disorder that is characterized by at least one manic or mixed episode. There may be episodes of hypomania or major depression as well. It is a sub diagnosis of bipolar disorder, and conforms to the classic concept of manic depressive… …   Wikipedia

• bipolar disorder — bipolar disorders N VAR Bipolar disorder is a mental illness in which a person s state of mind changes between extreme happiness and extreme depression …   English dictionary

• bipolar (affective) disorder — n. a psychotic disorder characterized by alternating periods of mania and mental depression; manic depressive illness: now the preferred term in psychiatry * * * …   Universalium

• bipolar disorder — a term that came into use in medical circles in the 1970s, is now preferred to manic depression to signify ‘a form of mental illness characterized by one or more episodes of mania typically accompanied by one or more episodes of major depression’ …   Modern English usage

• bipolar (affective) disorder — n. a psychotic disorder characterized by alternating periods of mania and mental depression; manic depressive illness: now the preferred term in psychiatry …   English World dictionary

• bipolar (affective) disorder — n. a psychotic disorder characterized by alternating periods of mania and mental depression; manic depressive illness: now the preferred term in psychiatry …   English World dictionary

• Manic-Depressive Illness —    (Bipolar Disorder)    Before 1850, numerous physicians had commented on the alternation of mania and melancholia. In 1844, Karl Wigand Maximilian Jacobi (1775–1858), chief physician of Siegburg asylum in Germany, noted that Exaltation and… …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry