Bipolar Disorder
(Manic Depressive Disorder)
 Bipolar disorder (manic-depression)
is a type of depression in which the depressed person has also had
periods in their life during which they felt extremely high, euphoric or
irritable along with other symptoms or mania or hypomania.
Information in this section is provided by Rhode Island
Hospital psychiatrist Mark Zimmerman, MD. The psychiatry department's
services include the MIDAS Project,
an ongoing clinical research study involving the
integration of research assessment methods into routine clinical practice.
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