Cyclothymic Disorder
A mood disorder that causes emotional highs and lows.
The mood shifts in cyclothymia aren’t as extreme as those in people with bipolar disorders. People with cyclothymia can typically function in daily life, though it may be difficult.
Symptoms include intermittent psychological highs and lows that may become more pronounced over time.
Treatment usually involves counseling and therapy. In rare cases, medications may be used.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W051
Diagnosis: Cyclothemic Disorder
US Patients:
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: M1;F1
Age Onset: Age 17
Brain Area:
Symptoms: mild depressive symptoms periodically, usually in a family with bipolar disorder; mentally and socially withdrawn
Progression: rotate between depressive and mild manic states with more spontaneity, self-esteem, spending; thoughts faster
Causes:
Medications: lithium, mood stabilizers
Therapies: counseling
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- A critical examination of multidimensionality within the Hypomanic Personality Scaleby Talia R Berson on March 22, 2022
BACKGROUND: The Hypomanic Personality Scale (HPS) assesses bipolar spectrum psychopathology and risk for bipolar disorders. Despite the developers' intent to create a scale that provides a unitary score, several studies have examined whether the HPS has a multidimensional structure. These models have been unable to identify a replicable multidimensional structure, with models varying from fairly similar to entirely dissimilar, and have suffered from theoretical and methodological concerns.
- Depressive and Anxious Temperaments as Predictors of Late Onset Bipolar Disorder? Preliminary Results of a "Real World" Exploratory Studyby Laura Orsolini on March 7, 2022
CONCLUSION: Further longitudinal studies with larger sample sizes and a control group are needed to determine whether LOBD may represent a distinct psychopathological entity from non-LOBD and evaluate differences (if any) in terms of prognosis and treatment between non-LOBD and LOBD.
- Associations between cognitive impairment and cortical thickness alterations in patients with euthymic and depressive bipolar disorderby Youbin Kang on March 1, 2022
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- Driving performance of euthymic outpatients with bipolar disorder undergoing real-world pharmacotherapyby Akiko Yamaguchi on January 17, 2022
CONCLUSION: Euthymic patients with BD under steady-state pharmacotherapy had impaired driving performance compared with HCs, but the overlapping distributions of driving performance suggested that driving performance is not always deteriorated in patients with BD. Therefore, attentional function may be a useful clinical feature for judging driving aptitude in patients with BD.