Newer medications that have been shown to stabilize mood in bipolar disorder include valproic acid (Depakote), carbamazepine and oxcarbazepine, lamotrigine (Lamictal) and several of a class of medications known as atypical antipsychotics.

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Most commonly, the mood disorder accompanying the schizophrenic features is either bipolar disorder (bipolar-type schizoaffective) or depression (depressive-type schizoaffective).

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Some have suggested he may have suffered from bipolar disorder, experiencing frequent mood shifts from intense bursts of impulsive activity to paralysing depression.

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Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder that presents with recurrent episodes of mood instability of feeling 'high' (mania or hypomania) and 'low' (depression).

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In particular, there's a strong genetic component to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, as well as to several mood and anxiety disorders, including depression, bipolar disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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The doctor diagnosed bipolar disorder, a condition characterized by extreme mood swings.

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Bipolar disorder, which is sometimes called manic depression, is marked by mood swings.

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Conversely, it is equally essential to help people that desire the diagnosis to understand that having 'mood swings' or chaotic and disorderly behaviour does not necessarily mean that they are suffering from bipolar disorder.

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