Question by : Can somebody help me make a outline for my bipolar research essay?
Im absolutely lost and cant really concentrate but I need help making an outline. I appreciate it so much thanks!

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Article by Steve Kurtz

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) can have an effect on how a child does in school. It can be tough for them to concentrate as well as recall data, much mainly because they had trouble paying attention. A child with ADD has trouble turning their thoughts to a lesson and turn away from distractions. They typically cannot keep their mind on something for extra than some minutes. Such children are generally impulsive, inattentive and hyperactive. It doesn’t matter regardless of whether the diagnosis is ADD or ADHD, the symptoms are similar and

ADD also goes by Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It really is a condition where the individual finds themselves inattentive, impulsive and hyperactive. It is often hard for someone suffering from ADD to follow directions, which makes it challenging to find out. A lot of are recognized to grow out of this condition or come across it lessens when they get older. Nevertheless other conditions that are related to ADD are conduct and bipolar disorders.

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Article by Julie Frey

Millions of Americans suffer from bipolar disorder. It is a disease that anyone is susceptible to. But, certain groups of people are more susceptible to it than others. For instance, if your parents or grandparents have shown bipolar disorder signs, your chances of contracting the disease is significantly higher that are those whose parents and grandparents have not had the illness. And, the same is true if you have one or more siblings with the disease. In point of fact, heredity is the biggest predictor of all of a person developing the illness.

When determining predictors, an additional one is that of the age of the individual. More often than not, this illness falls upon someone in their late teens. Consequently, pre-teens and older adults, as a group, have a much less chance of getting bipolar disorder.

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Article by Julie Frey

For many years, a controversy has existed among health experts on the efficacy of using antidepressants on people with bipolar disease. The common fear is that using antidepressants can cause what is known as rapid cycling.

This is a condition in which the mood of a patient can switch from mania to major depression and back again – all in a matter of hours or days. And, many health practitioners believe that this actually hinders a patient’s treatment by making the disease more difficult to treat with more standard medications such as mood stabilizers.

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A new research study has definitively associated the presence of bipolar disorder to two genes – ANK3 and CCACNA1C.

A key thing  that the research brings to light is that even though all humans have both the ANK3 and CACNA1C genes, people who have bipolar disorder or manic depression were more likely than others to have variants of these genes. The important phrase used in the research report is the term “more likely.”

What this indicates is that even some of the people that show no signs of bipolar disorder also possessed variants in their ANK3 and CACNA1C genes. So, evidently, Although the gene variances do seem to be an important indicator, there must be some additional factor as well which scientists have yet to discover.

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I’m still doing research for science, and it’s difficult, cuz i don’t know anything about infectious agents, and i tried to google the infectious agents of bipolar disorder! Please help againnnn!!! Thankyou!
Ahhh. I’m a little confused now. I have to write this information down and present it to my class. So which one is it really? Is there an infectious agent in bipolar or not????

I have a “mini” research paper due next week for Psychology. It’s a short, simple paper (so nothing that takes weeks and weeks to prepare for) and I’m writing about Mood Disorders: MDD (Major Depressive Disorder) & Bipolar Disorder. However, I’m having trouble on how to actually “start” writing the paper. I need to start on the rough draft, but how would I go about that…? Please help!

Bipolar affective disorder, also known as manic depression disorder, is a mental illness that causes the patient to experience mood swings or mood cycling, involving depressive episodes, mania episodes, and/or mixed episodes. There are many treatment options for bipolar affective disorder. The most successful treatments are a combination of medications and counseling or therapy.

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New measures are being explored to help patients with bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, to cope with their crushing illness. Surprising options are being tested as possible treatments for this disorder, such as motion sickness patches, a drug used to treat Lou Gehrig’s disease and a device that produces an electric field around the brain.
Bipolar disorder is a complex and mysterious illness characterized by severe mood swings, from mania to depression.

A sufferer can experience periods of increased energy, over-activity, irritability and sometimes delusions during the manic phase, and low mood, reduced concentration, disturbed sleep and ideas of self-harm during the depressed state. This condition can ruin careers and split marriages apart.  Extreme cases of depression can even drive desperate people to commit suicide.

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Can someone please explain the difference between borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder? Or point me in the direction of a good resource? I’ve done internet research on the topic and cannot seem to find a good answer. All I seem to find is that borderline has shorter mood swings. But these days, with rapid cycling and soft bipolar, it’s hard to use that as the distinguishing marker.

So what exactly differentiates borderline from bipolar?