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Despite the lack of acknowledgment of unipolar mania as a separate disorder, studies have found significant differences between the clinical features of unipolar mania and bipolar disorder. Individuals with unipolar mania are less likely to experience: Depressive features [9] Diurnal variation of mood [9] Hallucination [9]
The choice of medications may differ depending on the bipolar disorder episode type or if the person is experiencing unipolar or bipolar depression. [ 17 ] [ 143 ] Other factors to consider when deciding on an appropriate treatment approach includes if the person has any comorbidities, their response to previous therapies, adverse effects, and ...
This subtype of bipolar disorder involves episodes of depression and episodes of elevated mood that don’t meet the full criteria for mania. These are known as hypomanic episodes ( hypo means ...
Mood disorders fall into seven groups, [2] including; abnormally elevated mood, such as mania or hypomania; depressed mood, of which the best-known and most researched is major depressive disorder (MDD) (alternatively known as clinical depression, unipolar depression, or major depression); and moods which cycle between mania and depression ...
Bipolar disorder is difficult to diagnose. [2] If a person displays some symptoms of bipolar disorder but not others, the clinician may diagnose bipolar NOS. The diagnosis of bipolar NOS is indicated when there is a rapid change (days) between manic and depressive symptoms and can also include recurring episodes of hypomania. Bipolar NOS may be ...
Psychotic depression, also known as depressive psychosis, is a major depressive episode that is accompanied by psychotic symptoms. [2] It can occur in the context of bipolar disorder or major depressive disorder. [2]
Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder with cyclical periods of depression and periods of elevated mood. [1] The elevated mood is significant and is known as mania , a severe elevation that can be accompanied by psychosis in some cases, or hypomania , a milder form of mania.
[1] [2] [3] Kleist coined the terms unipolar (‘einpolig’) and bipolar (‘zweipolig’) that are now used in the concepts of unipolar depression and bipolar disorder. [4] His main publications were in the field of neurology, and he is particularly known for his work on the localisation of function in the cerebral cortex of man including ...