Bipolar disorder: clinical overview
Müller, J.K.; Leweke, F.M.
Medizinische Monatsschrift für Pharmazeuten 39(9): 363
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 0342-9601 PMID: 29956510 Document Number: 11586
Bipolar disorder is a severe psychiatric disorder, characterized by depressive, manic and mixed episodes. The illness affects about 1-2 % of the population. Bipolar I disorders affect both genders equally, whereas bipolar II disorders seem to occur more frequently in women. The classification of the different subtypes of bipolar disorders is done depending on the severity and frequency of the episodes. Other subtypes beside bipolar I and bipolar II disorder are rapid cycling (more than 4 episodes of mania, depression, hypomania or mixed state in one year) and cyclothymia (hypomanic and subdepressive symptoms over a two year period). Besides a thorough psychiatric and neurological examination, further clinical tests should be performed in order to exclude differential diagnosis (psychiatric as well as neurological and somatic diseases).
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