Bipolar-I Disorder

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  Poor Practice, Managed Care, and Magic Pills

  Have we created a mental health monster? The three factors largely responsible for the phenomenon described in this case are poor practice, managed care, and a pill-pushing society.Read More

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  Clinical Update on Bipolar Disorder: Particle or Wave?

  Sometimes light is better conceptualized as a particle, sometimes as a wave. So in psychiatry: sometimes it is better to use a system of categories . . . Even if the particle-based view is less phenomenologically accurate for bipolar disorder we need not abandon the DSM system entirely. Read More

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  Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale (BSDS)

  This scale is based on those questions that Dr Ronald Pies found most helpful in detecting not only severe cases of bipolar disorder but also patients who fall into the “softer” end of the bipolar spectrum.Read More

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  The Anxious Bipolar Patient

  Strategies for treatment of anxiety disorders comorbid with bipolar disorder.Read More