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Bipolar affective disorder
Bipolar affective disorder A psychiatric disorder in which the affected person has both depressed and happy, energetic (manic) episodes. This is a newer term for manic-depressive disorder.
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Psychiatric
Pertaining to the medical specialty that deals with mental disorder.
Manic-depressive
A mental disorder marked by alternating periods of excitability and depression. Also called bipolar affective disorder.
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Also known as manic-depressive illness, a mental illness involving episodes of serious mania and depression. The person's mood usually swings from overly "high" and irritable to sad and hopeless and then back again, with periods of normal mood in between. Periods of abnormal mood and associated physiologic changes last for at least 2 weeks.
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