BIPOLAR DISORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bipolar disorder mean? 

• BIPOLAR DISORDER (noun)
  The noun BIPOLAR DISORDER has 1 sense:

1. a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression

  Familiarity information: BIPOLAR DISORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIPOLAR DISORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

bipolar disorder; manic-depressive psychosis; manic depression; manic depressive illness

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 

If not treated, bipolar disorder can lead to damaged relationships, poor job or school performance, and even suicide.

(Bipolar Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

Defects in the COMT gene are associated with susceptibility to neurological disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

(COMT wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A drug used to treat epileptic seizures and bipolar disorder and to prevent migraine headaches.

(Depakene, NCI Dictionary)

It may be broadly classified as a depressive or bipolar disorder due to a general medical condition.

(Organic Affective Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Depression is one part of bipolar disorder.

(Depression, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

Among reference patients, patients with bipolar disorder, depression, or alcohol use disorder had an increased risk of suicide.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

Certain allelic variants of the ADRBK2 gene are associated with susceptibility to bipolar disorder.

(ADRBK2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Causes include pain, stress, fever, alcohol and nicotine withdrawal, cocaine and hallucinogenic drugs use, depression, bipolar disorders, and schizophrenia.

(Agitation, NCI Thesaurus)

The depressive stage of bipolar disorder.

(Bipolar Depression, NCI Thesaurus)

The genetic basis of depression overlaps importantly with other psychiatric disorders like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)