Understanding, treating and managing bipolar disorder : Short Wave : NPR

Two important therapy choices for bipolar dysfunction embrace medicine, just like the temper stabilizer lithium, and remedy.

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Two important therapy choices for bipolar dysfunction embrace medicine, just like the temper stabilizer lithium, and remedy.

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Round 40 million individuals around the globe have bipolar dysfunction, which entails cyclical swings between moods: from despair to mania.

Kay Redfield Jamison is a kind of individuals. She’s additionally a professor of psychiatry on the Johns Hopkins College of Drugs and has written extensively concerning the matter, from medical textbooks to non-public memoirs. In truth, Jamison penned one of many first memoirs ever written by a medical physician residing with bipolar, An Unquiet Mind.

Right now on Quick Wave, she joins us to speak concerning the analysis course of, treating and managing bipolar dysfunction.

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This episode was produced by Rachel Carlson. It was edited by Rebecca Ramirez. Tyler Jones checked the details. Kwesi Lee was the audio engineer.