Bipolar Flashcards
What is bipolar?
Fluctuations between mood and motivation
What is the life expectancy for those with bipolar?
 reduce by 10 to 20 years
What percentage of people with bipolar are able to work?
50%
True or false, you can see psychosis in both mania and depression
True
What was the traditional view of bipolar?
Mood fluctuations with stability in between
Mania normal depressed 
Why is bipolar difficult to diagnose?
 1. People w bipolar tend to help when they’re depressed, not manic
2.  they also can take substances which interfere
3.  most developed by pilot in adolescence, which is already a time for turbulence, and both can be indistinguishable from each other. 

How does this by different from depression?
Depression episodes are more frequent shorter and more intense, and at risk of psychosis. The features of depression of similar in bipolar and unipolar depression. 
What’s the difference between bipolar and schizophrenia?
 schizophrenia psychosis is more severe and it is a cognitive issue which leads to mood problems whereas bipolar is a mood issue which leads to cognitive problems
What is the difference between bipolar and emotional unstable, personality disorder?
UPD. There is fear of abandonment. We sense of self feeling empty but bipolar does not have these.. attachment issues in EUPD but not bipolar
What is a phenotype?
A observable characteristic 
Why is mania hard to explain later on to someone?
Memory bias, that is informed by the state they are in describing everything 
What is the current view of bipolar with evidence?
 Tanas et al (2016) mood zoom. six mood dimensions were studied, (anger, elation, sadness, anxiety, irritability and elation) and these 6 were plotted against each other and it was found that bipolar individuals had the most emotional variation, because the emotions are unstable.  this data was in use to predict how bipolar individuals would feel later on based on their current mood, and they found that bipolar was very predictable, because rather than the  unstable, manic depression and stable normal mood, is the inverse where manic and depression are the most stable, and the normal mood is actually full of fluctuations 
What is the level of heritability in bipolar?
 between 60 and 90%
Why can’t Hair ability explain all of bipolar
 because we also need to consider environment
Explain, bipolar heritability
 differences in genes  the account for bipolar.  however, it’s important to note the environment plays apart and if the environment is having a major impact then jeans aren’t as important in determining likelihood of becoming bipolar
