Mood [affective] disorders (71 contents)
Bipolar affective disorder (29 contents)
Pregnancy in a patient with borderline and BPAD: should gynaecologists be told about diagnoses?
Women with psychiatric disorders - as well as those who do not receive psychiatric care - can lead ordinary lives and, for example, engage successfully in professional activities. They are also...
The ideal job for people with BPAD: does such a profession even exist?
There is not really one ideal profession for people who have bipolar affective disorder (BPAD). However, patients can - when choosing a job - be guided by certain aspects, as certain jobs will be...
Bipolar affective disorder and astrocytes and interleukin-6
Various researchers are continually undertaking work to search for the causes of bipolar affective disorder (BPAD). Thespecialists at the US Salk Institute for Biological Studies present interesting...
How were the first drugs for schizophrenia, depression and BPAD developed?
In this article I describe the history of the development of drugs for the most important (from the point of view of the history of psychiatry) diseases, namely: schizophrenia, depression and BPAD.
What are schizoaffective disorders?
Schizoaffective disorder is actually a combination of two theoretically completely separate problems, namely schizophrenia and affective (mood) disorders. It is not at all easy to recognise this...
Bipolar and Borderline affective disorder: what do they have in common and what separates them?
As bipolar disorder and Borderline personality disorder can have a similar clinical course, there is a risk of misdiagnosis in patients. An accurate diagnosis in patients with these disorders is...
Hypomania - symptoms, diagnosis, treatment of affective disorders
Hypomania (hypomaniacal syndrome), usually described as a state of excessively elevated mood, a so-called 'high' or 'mania of milder intensity', can represent one of the episodes of bipolar affective...
When do we face bipolar affective disorder?
Many patients and those around them wonder when do we deal with bipolar affective disorder?
Perception of people with BPAD by others
Strange behaviour or bipolar affective disorder? Many people wonder when we can talk about bipolar affective disorder and when we are dealing with a person with a strong character, confident, overly...
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar affective disorder, or bipolar disorder, is a syndrome characterised by periods of depression , mania and mixed periods/ episodes.
Subtypes and characteristics of bipolar affective disorder (BPAD)
Bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) is characterised by two types of symptoms: depressive states (lack of desire to work, avoidance of contact with family and friends, sadness, depression) and states...
Antiepileptic drugs for BPAD and fibromyalgia
The most characteristic symptoms of bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) are mood disorders. People with BPAD have opposing activities that follow one another - depression or a state of mania (or...
Bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Bipolar affective disorder (BPAD, manic-depressive illness/psychosis) is one of the more common mental disorders. It has a very negative impact on the life and normal functioning of patients. It is...
Carousel of emotions or inner peace? - living with BPAD
We all have our ups and downs, periods when joy and happiness radiate from us and days when we would prefer not to leave our room. In bipolar disorder these ups and downs are much more intense.
Benign positional vertigo causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is the most common form of vertigo associated with inner ear pathology. It is characterised by brief, recurrent episodes of systemic vertigo provoked by...
Lithium - the mineral that heals
Lithium salts were the first normothymic (mood-stabilising) drug to be introduced into circulation. The term is used to refer to substances that have the property of keeping the mood within the...
Cyclothymia, dysthymia - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
The above-mentioned disorders have many features in common, but there is also no shortage of differences between them. Both disorders mentioned above are characterised by low intensity symptoms....
Forced hospitalisation affects patient behaviour
People who are not of their own free will in hospitals or psychiatric wards are more likely to refuse treatment.
