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  1. CASE REPORT Case Report on Bipolar Affective Disorder: Mania with

    se Report on Bipolar Afective Disorder: Mania with Psychotic SymptomsInvestIgAtIonsBlood investigation findings showed: serum creatinine—0.75 mg/dL, serum urea—15 mg/dL, seru. sodium—142 mEq/dL, serum potassium—5.1 mEq/dL, and serum chloride—101 mEq/dL. She underwent special investigation such as psychometric assessment—young mania ...

  2. (PDF) Clinical Case Report on Bipolar Affective Disorder, Mania

    1.5.1. Definition of bipolar disorders. Bipolar disorder is an episodic, potentially life-long, disabling disorder that can be difficult to diagnose. Need to. improve recognition, reduce sub ...

  3. PDF CASE REPORT Family intervention with a case of bipolar I disorder with

    Theoretical and research basis for treatment. Bipolar disorder is a major psychiatric illness, with a lifetime prevalence of one to three per cent. It is estimated that an adult developing bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) in his/her mid 20s effectively loses nine years of life, 12 years of normal health, and 14 years of work activity.[1]

  4. Patient Case #1: 27-Year-Old Woman With Bipolar Disorder

    We're going to go ahead to patient case No. 1. This is a 27-year-old woman who's presented for evaluation of a complex depressive syndrome. She has not benefitted from 2 recent trials of antidepressants—sertraline and escitalopram. This is her third lifetime depressive episode.

  5. (PDF) Bipolar II Disorder Case Study

    Introduction. In the United States, the aggregate twelve-month prevalence rate of DSM-V bipolar I and. II disorders, along with bipolar disorder not otherwise specified, is 1.8%, and the ...

  6. PDF Diagnosis and management of bipolar disorders

    This article provides an overview of the clinical features, diagnostic subtypes, and major treatment modalities for bipolar disorder, a recurrent and sometimes chronic mood disorder. It also explores the causes, prognosis, and novel areas of inquiry for bipolar disorder.

  7. Bipolar Disorder

    Bipolar I disorder is defined by the presence of overt manic episodes with a range of manifestations, including overconfidence, grandi-osity, talkativeness, extreme disinhibition, irritability ...

  8. Psychiatric treatment of bipolar disorder: The case of Janice

    Presents a case report of a 30-year-old married Caucasian woman, presented to our university clinic seeking a new psychiatrist to manage her bipolar illness. She had moved to the Southeast due to her husband's job relocation three months ago, and had few social contacts in her new city. She reported emerging from the depths of a severe major depressive episode one year ago and since then had ...

  9. (PDF) Case Study: Eric and Bipolar Disorder I

    Bipolar Disorder (BPD) is a mood disorder involving periods of either depressed or elevated and expansive moods (American Psychology Association [APA], 2000). These changes in polarity are ...

  10. PDF CASE REPORT OF A PATIENT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER

    Key words: bipolar disorder - migraines - epilepsy - case report * * * * * INTRODUCTION Bipolar disorder; epilepsy and migraines are three common and broad-spectrum disorders, for which their pathophysiological mechanisms still remain uncertain. Epidemiological studies have shown that these condi-tions often exist as co-morbidities (Ortiz ...

  11. (PDF) Clinical case report on bipolar affective disorder, mania

    Description of disease 1.5.1. Definition of bipolar disorders Bipolar disorder is an episodic, potentially life-long, disabling disorder that can be difficult to diagnose. Need to improve recognition, reduce sub-optimal care and improve long-term outcomes. There is variation in management of care across healthcare settings. 1 1.2.

  12. The Diagnosis and Management of Bipolar I and II Disorders

    Making the Diagnosis. The first step toward the accurate diagnosis of BP-I or BP-II disorder is identifying current or past manic, hypomanic, and depressive epi-sodes. Diagnostic criteria for these types of mood episodes, and clinical probes for identi-fying key symptoms, are provided in Table 1.12 With this information, speci c bipo-fi lar ...

  13. Psychiatric Treatment of Bipolar Disorder: The Case of Janice

    Chapter 5 covers the psychiatric treatment of bipolar disorder, including a case history, key principles, assessment strategy, differential diagnosis, case formulation, treatment planning, nonspecific factors in treatment, potential treatment obstacles, ethical considerations, common mistakes to avoid in treatment, and relapse prevention.

  14. Case Presentation: A 23-Year-Old With Bipolar Disorder

    Gus Alva, MD, DFAPA: Psychiatric Times presents this roundtable on the management of bipolar disorder, a phenomenal dialogue allowing clinicals a perspective regarding current trends and where we may be headed in the future. This is an interesting case, as we take a look at this 23-year-old female who first comes in to see her psychiatrist with moderate depressive symptoms.

  15. PDF CASE REPORT A case report: bipolar disorder

    A case report: bipolar disorder. ri5, Al-Batool Fahad Ali Al-Mousa5ABSTRACTBackground: Bipolar disorder (BD) is considered as one of the most common chronic diseases among popula-tions that are always conjugated by depression; however, in chronic. cases, it might increase the risk of death. Case presentation: A 65-year-old Saudi male presented ...

  16. (PDF) A Case Study on Bipolar Affective Disorder Current Episode Manic

    The article, A case study on bipolar affective disorder, current episode without psychotic symptoms (ICD F 31.1), is a reco rd of original research effort, we therefore declare.

  17. (PDF) An Effective Management of Bipolar Disorder: A Clinical Case

    This case study looked at Bipolar I and Bipolar II disorder. Specifically, the researcher focused on understanding the different mood episodes of the participants through the determining factor involved in bipolar disorder like family background, educational background, social economic status, and other behavioral observations along with each management of bipolar disorder. data was gathered ...

  18. First Manic Episode in an 11 Year-old Girl

    Early-onset Bipolar Disorder. Studies have shown that bipolar disorder usually begins with an index episode of depression: positive family history (Pavuluri, Birmaher, & Naylor, 2005), clinical severity, psychotic symptoms, and psychomotor retardation are well documented predictors of bipolarity.Approximately 20% of youths with a first major depressive episode will develop a manic episode.

  19. PDF A Case Study on Bipolar Affective Disorder Current Episode Manic

    cted a study on a case report on bipolar affective disorder: Mania with psychotic symptoms. The study adopted the method of a case study w. ich aims to find the key characteristics and implications of mania with psychotic symptoms.Akdemir, D., & Gokler, B. (2017) c. nducted a study on psychopathology in the children of parents with a bipolar ...

  20. A Case Report of Mania and Psychosis Five Months after Traumatic Brain

    As in our case, the majority of individuals who ultimately develop bipolar disorder report a depressive episode first , but the later age of onset of manic symptoms and temporal relationship to TBI lends credence to the TBI's primary role in the development of manic symptoms. In the case presented here, the patient exhibited a combination of ...

  21. Bipolar Affective Disorder -Mania with Psychotic Symptoms: A Case Study

    Abstract. Bipolar disorder (formerly called manic-depressive illness or manic depression) is a mental disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, concentration, and the ...

  22. Cognitive Mechanisms of Aberrant Self-Referential ...

    Introduction. Individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) display chronic, medication-resistant functional impairments in social, familial, and role domains. 1-5 Major drivers of functional impairments include persistent deficits in social cognition, which allow individuals to understand information about others 6-8 and occur regardless of illness phase. 9, 10 One ...

  23. (PDF) Nursing care in bipolar disorder -case study

    PDF | Introduction: Bipolar disorder is a mental illness in which patients often display a significantly disturbed mood and behaviour. ... The work has been supplemented with a case study of a ...