Bipolar Disorder & Manic Depression Flashcards Preview

1. Schizophrenia
2. Bipolar disorder

Mood swings

1. Elation
2. Flight of Ideas
3. Increased Psychomotor Activity

• Distinct period, at least one week
• Abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive mood
• irritable mood
• Sufficient severity

Minimum of 3, 4 if irritable

1. Grandiosity
2. Decreased need for sleep
3. Hyperverbal or pressured speech
4. Flight of ideas or racing thoughts
5. Distractibility
6. Increased goal directed activity, psychomotor agitation
7. More pleasurable activity with painful consequences

3

• > Psychomotor activity, rate of speech
• > Sexual preoccupation, religiousness, spending, letter writing
• “High”but not out of control
• Labile mood, euphoric
• Expansiveness, grandiosity
• Coherent thoughts, tangential

• > Pressured speech, psychomotor activity
• > Dysphoric mood, depression
• Open hostility, anger
• Explosive, assaultive behavior
• Flight of ideas
• Preoccupations now frankly delusional

• Desperate, panic stricken state
• Frenzied, bizarre psychomotor activity
• Bizarre, idiosyncratic delusions
• Hallucinations
• Disorientation
• Loose associations
• Ideas of reference

• Acute mania
• Delusional mania
• Delirious mania

1. Lithium carbonate
2. Anti-seizure
3. Neuroleptics (Antipsychotics)
4. Antidepressants
5. Omega-3 Fatty Acids

1. Carbamazapine
2. Valproate
3. Lamictal
4. Clonazepam
5. Gabapentin

1. Aripiprazole
2. Chlorpromazine
3. Olanzapine
4. Quetiapine
5. Risperidone
6. Ziprasidone

1. SSRIs
2. SNRIs
3. Tricyclics
4. MAOis
5. Atypicals