Basic Facts
People with bipolar disorder can live happy, healthy lives by getting this kind of professional help.
What is treatment? (eg. medication, therapy, etc.)
The milder, shorter form of mania marked by an abnormally elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, paired with significantly increased energy and activity levels.
What is Hypomania
These chemical messengers allow nerve cells to communicate with one another.
What are neurotransmitters?
This core symptom involves feeling sad, empty, hopeless, or tearful for most of the day, nearly every day.
What is depression?
Missing a single night of this basic daily necessity is one of the most common and immediate triggers for a manic episode.
What is sleep?
What type of disorder is bipolar disorder?
What is: a chronic mental health disorder/mood disorder.
A distinct psychiatric state of abnormally and persistently high energy, mood, or irritability
What is mania?
This neurotransmitter is involved in motivation, reward, pleasure, and movement.
What is dopamine?
This milder form of mood is less severe than full blown mania
What is hypomania/hypomaniac episodes?
Bipolar disorder is currently most prevalent in what country?
What is the United States?
This professional is a medical doctor who specializes in mental health and can prescribe bipolar medication/treatment options.
What is a psychiatrist?
A persistent feeling of sadness, emptiness, or loss of interest in activities that a person used to enjoy.
What is depression
This neurotransmitter helps regulate mood and sleep.
What is seratonin?
Doctors prescribe these mood-boosting pills for depression
What is antidepressents?
What year was the introduction for the modern term bipolar disorder established?
What is 1980?
State one of the four factors that contribute to the development of bipolar disorder.
What are genetics, neurotransmitters, brain structure, or environmental factors?
This part of the brain is known as the brain’s emotional alarm system, and tends to be hyperactive, causing emotional signals to fire intensely even outside of full mood episodes
Amygdala Hyperactivity
This brain region is responsible for decision-making, planning, and impulse control.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The most common mood stabilizer medication used for bipolar disorder treatment
What is lithium?
This percentage of Canadians aged 15 and older met the diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder within a 12-month period, according to your research.
What is 2.1%?
This factor can increase a person's likelihood of developing bipolar disorder, although it does NOT guarantee they will develop it.
What is family history/ (genetics)?
The reduced ability or complete inability to feel pleasure, joy, or interest in activities that you normally enjoy
What is anhedonia?
This is the body's internal biological clock that regulates sleeping and waking.
What is the circadian rhythm?
This biological process can be disrupted by staying up all night, potentially triggering a mood episode.
What is the circadian rhythm?
This is the estimated number of people living with bipolar disorder worldwide, according to your research.
What is 36–54 million people?