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Post by healthy11 on May 6, 2015 21:05:49 GMT -5
www.livescience.com/50756-depression-bipolar-disorder-differences.htmlAmong other things, the article says, "As psychiatrists, we have a big problem: We cannot distinguish unipolar depression from bipolar depression," said Dr. Eric Ruhe, a psychiatrist at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. This inability to tell which disorder a patient has is a problem because antidepressant medication usually isn't effective for treating people with bipolar disorder, he said. Such medicines can even increase such a patient's risk of having a manic episode, he said. During manic episodes, a person with bipolar disorder may become agitated, euphoric and sometimes psychotic. [Top 10 Stigmatized Health Disorders] The new findings could lead to a better way of diagnosing and treating patients with these disorders, according to the study, published today (May 6, 2015) in the journal JAMA Psychiatry."
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Post by healthy11 on Mar 2, 2016 18:59:51 GMT -5
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