From: Pat Mckeon, MBBCh, MD, FRCPsych	Category: Mental Health
City:  -	Language: English

What is bipolar depression?

From: Igor Galynker, MD, PhD	Category: Mental Health
City: New York	Language: English

What is Bipolar disorder? Dr. Igor Galynker, MD, PhD, a psychiatrist at Beth Israel in New York discusses this psychiatric illness.

From: Igor Galynker, MD, PhD	Category: Mental Health
City: New York	Language: English

Bipolar disorder is an inheritied disease. However, it is inherited as a predisposition to the disease. If certain stressful situations are avoided the disease can be prevented or atleast delay the onset of disease.

From: Igor Galynker, MD, PhD	Category: Mental Health
City: New York	Language: English

There are two sets of symptoms in bipolar disorder. One is the Manic state when people feel invincible, increased energy, euphoria, lack of sleep, irritability, and sometimes hypersexual. There other is depression when people are hopeless, and life feels bad, and they can be suicidal.

From: Igor Galynker, MD, PhD	Category: Mental Health
City: New York	Language: English

Bipolar disorder is a lifelong disease, but there is good medical therapy for bipolar disorder. It is important to prevent as many depressive or manic episodes as subsequent episodes usually become more severe.

From: Igor Galynker, MD, PhD	Category: Mental Health
City: New York	Language: English

Although Bipolar disorder is a lifelong disease, there is good medical therapy for this disease. The most common medication used for bipolar disorder is Lithium. Dr. Igor Galynker, a psychiatrist at Beth Israel Med. Ctr. in NY, discusses the treatment of Bipolar disorder.

From: Ben Danielson, MD	Category: Pediatrics
City: Seattle	Language: English

Bipolar Disorder in Children: Dr. Ben Danielson, a pediatrician at Seattle Children's Hospital, discusses treatment and living with a child with Bipolar disorder.

From: Janet Wozniak, MD	Category: Mental Health
City: Boston	Language: English

Understanding Bipolar disorder in children: Dr. Janet Wozniak, an Adolescent Psychiatrist from Harvard Medical School, discusses Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents.