Bipolar I:One has had at least one manic episode and this may have been preceded or followed by hypomania or major depressive episode. But the latter are not required for diagnosis. Sometimes mania can be severe leading to a break from reality or psychosis and need for inpatient admission to...
Prevalence and characteristics of undiagnosed bipolar disorders in patients with a major depressive episode: the BRIDGE study. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 68, 791–798 (2011). In this article, Angst and colleagues propose new criteria to define hypomanic and manic episodes. The bipolar-specifier criteria...
Bipolar disorder has the highest rate of suicide of all psychiatric conditions and is approximately 20–30 times that of the general population. The p
Hypomania is generally a less destructive state than mania, and people in the hypomanic phase generally experience less of the symptoms of mania than those in a full-blown manic episode. The duration is usually also shorter than in mania. This is often a very 'artistic' state of the ...
The CIDI section F screen for bipolar I disorder detected a lifetime episode of elevated mood lasting at least 4 days plus at least 3, not necessarily concurrent, CIDI manic symptoms (n = 124); the section G screen for positive psychotic symptoms detected any clinically relevant positive psycho...
Cyclothymia, by nature, is the years-long, chronic cycling of sub-major depressive and sub-hypomanic symptoms approximately every few days without disruption; the dysthymia of bipolar disorders, if you will. Ultra-rapid and ultradian cycling has never been included in the DSM or th...
Bipolar disorders, which in the ICD-10 is classified asbipolar disorder, or manic-depressiveillness (MDI), is a common, severe, and persistentmental illness. This condition is a serious lifelong struggle and challenge. In the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder...
For the latter patients, the median time elapsed from first treatment contact with the psychiatric service system to the first diagnosis with a manic episode/bipolar disorder was nearly 1 year and for 25% of those patients it took more than 2 years before the diagnosis was made. The most ...
They are characterized by the presence of both manic or hypomanic episodes and depressive episodes. They are divided into type I disorder, which is defined by the occurrence of severe manic episodes; type II disorder in which the depressive episode occurs with hypomania but not mania; and ...
differences could be caused by the manic episode of the included participants, which lead to more impaired ToM in BD I than BD II [59]. A recent meta-analysis also revealed a modest correlation between full-manic episode and cognitive deficits in BD [8], which supported that mood phase sho...