A Mania for Diagnosing Bipolar Disorder

Europe s Misguided Investment Mania

Childhood bipolar children as young as four are being labeled bipolar because they have temper tantrums, which scores them high on their bipolar checklist.

David Hoffman shares his Sputnik mania

Jay Walker on the world's English mania

Let's start with Beatle mania hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium.

B12 deficiency can also cause characteristics of mania and psychosis.

Over diagnosis of bipolar disorder has costs.

Patients with SCID diagnosed bipolar disorder had a significantly higher risk of bipolar disorder in their immediate family members than patients who self reported a previous diagnosis of bipolar disorder that was not confirmed by the SCID.

DAKAR Sub Saharan African is in the grip of currency union mania.

Hypomania may be indicative of bipolar II disorder or cyclothymia.

Sports mania deafening crowds, all for one idea get the ball in the net.

In fact, a new bipolar, Cold War style ideological divide has emerged.

Organizations created in the bipolar world must adjust to the current reality.

Slightly more than 20 (145 patients) in our sample reported that they had been previously diagnosed as having bipolar disorder, significantly higher than the 12.9 rate based on the SCID. Less than half of those who reported that they had been previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder were diagnosed with bipolar disorder based on the SCID.

The first, written in 1855, thirty five years after his death, concluded he suffered from acute mania.

Our findings, validated by family history, thus suggest that bipolar disorder was over diagnosed.

For more than a decade, Italy has been ruled through a bipolar political system.

From early 1947 to May 1948, when Israel became a state, Amalia (Mania) Schoeps was director of Sciesopoli.

Thus, over diagnosing bipolar disorder can unnecessarily expose patients to serious side effects of medication.

Many of these codes are bipolar codes, where the pulses can be positive, negative or absent.

Indeed China mania, a mixture of hopes, but mostly fears, is sweeping the world due to China s rapid economic rise.

The end of the bipolar world represented a great opportunity to make the international order more humane.

To be sure, we have also seen patients seeking treatment for depression who really did have bipolar disorder.

We therefore conducted a study to examine empirically how often bipolar disorder might be over and under diagnosed.

But, either way, the bipolar political system to which Italians were getting accustomed is unlikely to survive unscathed.

The results of our study are consistent with prior studies suggesting possible problems with the diagnosis of bipolar disorder.

Still, it appears to be effective in about one half of patients with bipolar disorder and be well tolerated.

It is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

LONDON As Olympic mania swept the world in recent weeks, it transported the host country, Great Britain, to a rare display of public exultation.

Mania is always relative to the normal rate of intensity of the person being diagnosed with it therefore, an easily angered person may exhibit mania by getting even angrier even more quickly, and an intelligent person may adopt seemingly genius characteristics and an ability to perform and to articulate thought beyond what they can do in a normal mood.

Insofar as the term retains any meaning, the world is bipolar, and is likely to remain so over the foreseeable future.

In that bipolar world, nuclear weapons were held by only five global powers, all permanent members of the UN Security Council.

Cognitive behavioural therapy may also be used to assist those with Axis I diagnoses, such as depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.

The Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392), also known as the Clownface Nebula or Caldwell 39, is a bipolar double shell planetary nebula (PN).

You can make him bipolar, or as someone said, a you can change his homeostatic drives, or whatever you want to call them.

The impact of marketing efforts by pharmaceutical companies and publicity probably plays a role in the emerging tendency to over diagnose bipolar disorder.

Direct to consumer advertisements that refer individuals to screening questionnaires can result in patients suggesting to their doctors that they have bipolar disorder.

Sparked by Poland s Solidarity movement, the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the bipolar world and its East West divide vanished.

Even patients who are diagnosed with bipolar disorder often wait more than 10 years after initially seeking treatment for the correct diagnosis to be made.

Anti Japanese riots across China have heightened tensions in Asia. Indeed China mania, a mixture of hopes, but mostly fears, is sweeping the world due to China s rapid economic rise.

Such bipolar behavior seems to apply to assessments of India s economy as well, with foreign analysts joining Indians in swings between over exuberance and self flagellation.

fulltext C. S. Herrman, The Bipolar Spectrum, SSRN (Social Science Research Network, 5 August 2010) http www.ssrn.com author 510356 Nosology.net An online resource for nosologic diagnostic systems.

The campaign against under recognition has probably resulted in some anxious, agitated, and or irritable depressed patients who complain of insomnia and racing thoughts being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Those opposed to such rampant use of drugs note that diagnostic rates for bipolar disorder, in particular, have skyrocketed by 4,000 and that overmedication is impossible without over diagnosis.