Breaking Down the Vicious Cycles of Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depressive illness, is a mental disorder characterized by extreme unusual shifts in energy, mood, and activity levels, imp...
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A Look into Bipolar
Mental illnesses have been more of a focus in medicine in the last decade because of the increased number of diagnosis. Bipolar otherwise known as manic-depres...
Lithium does things?
What do you think of when you first hear the word lithium? To be perfectly honest, before I read this article on lithium, the most that popped into my h...
The search for a wonder drug…
Have you ever wondered if there is a wonder drug? A drug that does really anything and everything? Something that you can take and it will ensure your health fo...
Wait, these drugs do what?
If I were to tell my mom I just spent a week reading and delving into an article discussing an alternative signaling pathway of the dopamine receptor involving ...
Bipolar: You may not have even known.
Before our discussion of bipolar disease in class I always imagined people who would seem fine one second and then have a huge, angry outburst. I genuinely bel...
Bipolar Disorder and the Stigma of Mental Illness
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a mental disorder characterized by changes in mood. BD I has cycles of mania and depression while BD II has cycles of hypomania and dep...
Root of Emotions
Emotions and mood are a small part of the human life, but are complex in the way they are controlled and stimulated. Bipolar disorder seems to be a malfunction ...
Defensive Bipolar
While I was wondering around the internet searching for information on bipolar disorder, I stumbled across an interesting blog by a person (Bp) who was diagnose...
Beethoven Without Bipolar: The Cost of Creativity
This week’s discussion topic was on bipolar disorder. So far we have only focused on the negative effects of bipolar disorder and finding ways to treat it. I a...