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Product DescriptionThis digital document is a journal article from Clinical Psychology Review, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: This is a review of the studies comparing unipolar and bipolar depression, with focus on the course, symptomatology, neurobiology, and psychosocial literatures. These are reviewed with one question in mind: does the evidence support diagnosing bipolar and unipolar depressions as the same disorder or different? The current nomenclature of bipolar and unipolar disorders has resulted in research that compares these disorders as a whole, without considering depression separately from mania within bipolar disorder. Future research should investigate …
Product DescriptionThis digital document is a journal article from Clinical Psychology Review, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: Bipolar depression is poorly understood and researched, yet it is has a huge impact on functioning in bipolar disorder. This review explores the current status of research regarding the phenomenology, natural history, neuropsychology, psychosocial predictors and cognitive style of bipolar depression. The current status of pharmacotherapy and psychological treatment of bipolar depression is also described. In particular, the manner in which cognitive behaviour therapy for bipolar depression has been adapted from CBT for unipolar depression is critically …
On Schizophrenia, Phobias Depression, Psychotherapy and the Farther Shores of Psychiatry: Selected Papers of Silvano Arieti
Product DescriptionHigh Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Melancholia, also lugubriousness, from the Latin lugere, to mourn; moroseness, from the Latin morosus, self-willed, fastidious habit; wistfulness, from old English wist: intent, or saturnine, in contemporary usage, is a mood disorder of non-specific depression, characterized by low levels of enthusiasm and eagerness for activity. In a modern context, “melancholy” applies only to the mental or emotional symptoms of depression or despondency; historically, “melancholia” could be physical as well as mental, and melancholic conditions were classified as such by their common cause rather than by their properties. Similarly, melancholia in ancient usage also encompassed mental disorders which might now be classed as schizophrenias or bipolar disorders.
Melancholia: Mood disorder, Depression , Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorder, …
Product DescriptionThis book is a “Digest” from the original Visions for Tomorrow curriculum to provide basic information to the general public. There is a series of these “digests”, each covering a mental illness in the VFT curriculum, providing basic and valuable information for families who are dealing with a first time crisis or still trying to get information to better provide for their child’s needs.
Diagnosis – Bipolar Disorder and Depression: Visions for Tomorrow – The Basics
Product DescriptionCandid essays on manic depression from a bipolar writer. Her experiences have launched personal, cultural and social inquiry into how we understand ourselves in the interplay between physical reality and the mind. Contact: dexadog@ymail.com
Raw Days: Candid Views On Manic Depression And The Human Condition
Bipolar depression disorder generally occurs before the age of 30 years and may first develop during adolescence, but most commonly presents its symptoms in the late teens and early 20s. It is a type of mood disorder that exhibits marked changes in mood between extreme elation or happiness and severe depression. Bipolar disorder used to be referred to as manic depression.
Like other mental illnesses, bipolar disorder cannot yet be identified physiologically—for example, through a blood test or a brain scan. Therefore, a diagnosis of bipolar disorder is made on the basis of symptoms, course of illness, and, when available, family history. The diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder are described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, fourth edition …
Research on brain structure and function, neurochemical messenger systems (neurotransmitters), and brain-body connections suggests fundamental, delicate, two-way relationships between the brain’s environment and mood, behavior, and resistance to disease.
One focus of brain research has been to identify and integrate traditional medical and psychiatric knowledge with new psychobiological and “psychoneuroimmunologic” data.
Researchers in the field of psychobiology study the biologic basis of disturbances and have established some relationships between mental disorders and changes in the structure and function of the brain.
Findings on research about mental disorders suggest that the health care community ought to place as much emphasis on emotional health as it places on physiological health and ought to recognize how biological, emotional, and societal problems combine to affect individual …
