Managing Manic Depressive Disorders

Manic symptoms in patients with depressive and/or anxiety disorders.

BACKGROUND Previous studies found that patients with depressive disorders frequently have lifetime manic symptoms or even an unrecognized bipolar disorder and that these patients have more severe illness. In this study we investigated whether the presence of significant manic symptoms among patients presenting with depressive and/or anxiety disorders is associated with more severe illness, more...

The Depressive Phase of Manic-Depressive Insanity

IT iS to the genius of Kraepelin, whose death in 1926 must have spared him the pain of encountering Nazism, that we owe both the title and our present conception of manic-depressive insanity. This conception embraces far more than the clinical close relationship which sometimes exists between states of mania and states of melancholia. A good deal, in fact, was known about this relationship befo...

Genetics of manic depressive illness.

Manic depressive illness is a common and frequently debilitating familial psychiatric disorder. Efforts to understand the mechanisms of inheritance have been hindered by the complexity of the phenotype, which may range from benign mood swings to chronic psychosis, and by apparently nonmendelian modes of transmission. Early reports of linkage to chromosomal loci have fallen into doubt; however t...

[Affective equivalents in depressive and manic-depressive patients].

[Attempted suicide during depressive (unipolar) and manic depressive (bipolar) psychoses].