Sentences with phrase «mood episodes»

They examined the brains of 45 patients with bipolar disorder who were between mood episodes and 45 controls.

Among the study's high - risk children who did develop bipolar disorder, nearly all had identifiable mood episodes and other psychiatric disorders before the onset of full - fledged bipolar illness.

This is because Lamictal (lamotrigine) isn't only an anti-epileptic medication, that is used to treat epileptic seizures in adults and children, it's also used to delay mood episodes in adults with bipolar disorder.

Another important finding from the review, Wisner said, was that physicians must distinguish between different treatments for the two groups of women who develop postpartum psychosis: Those who have postpartum - only episodes and those who have more chronic mood episodes throughout and after their pregnancy.

This latest publication confirms and extends the baseline findings and describes how mood episodes develop in an effort to aid in early diagnosis on the basis of those subthreshold episodes.

Such sleep problems can potentially trigger new mood episodes among womenwith bipolar disorder, Battle said.

«By understanding the causes of bipolar disorder, we will be able to develop new treatments for the illness and most importantly, we'll be able to prevent destructive mood episodes.

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It can range from a persistent lethargy and sadness that requires medical treatment all the way up to postpartum psychosis, a condition in which the mood episode is accompanied by confusion, hallucinations or delusions.

In both bipolar I and II disorders, a person can have a mood episode (i.e., primarily manic or depressed) with mixed features, wherein a manic / hypomanic episode there are significant depressive symptoms, and in a depressive episode there are some manic / hypomanic symptoms.

At the completion of the group sessions, all participants were followed up monthly to assess any mood episodes or relapses.

A key task is the identification of specific symptoms that appear to herald the onset of a mood episode in each patient's case.