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BIPOLAR DISORDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression
Synonyms:
bipolar disorder; manic-depressive psychosis; manic depression; manic depressive illness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("bipolar disorder" is a kind of...):
affective disorder; emotional disorder; emotional disturbance; major affective disorder (any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bipolar disorder"):
cyclic disorder; cyclothymia; cyclothymic disorder (a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time)
Context examples:
Decreased DLG4 gene expression is associated with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
(DLG4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
But children and adults can have bipolar disorder too.
(Bipolar Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
For patients who had presented with deliberate self-harm, those with a comorbid diagnosis of bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, or a psychotic disorder were more likely to die by suicide than those without these co-occurring diagnoses.
(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)
Bipolar disorder often starts in a person's late teen or early adult years.
(Bipolar Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
The causes of bipolar disorder aren't always clear.
(Bipolar Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness.
(Bipolar Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
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