Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Bipolar disorders beyond major depression and euphoric mania
- 2 Emerging concepts of mixed states: a longitudinal perspective
- 3 Rapid-cycling bipolar disorder
- 4 Bipolar I and bipolar II: a dichotomy?
- 5 Recurrent brief depression as an indicator of severe mood disorders
- 6 Atypical depression and its relation to bipolar spectrum
- 7 Agitated depression: spontaneous and induced
- 8 Schizoaffective mixed states
- 9 Acute and transient psychotic disorder: an atypical bipolar disorder?
- 10 Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents
- 11 Atypical features of bipolarity in old age
- 12 Comorbidity in mixed states and rapid-cycling forms of bipolar disorders
- 13 Challenges in the genetics of bipolar disorder
- 14 Biological aspects of rapid-cycling and mixed states
- 15 The treatment of bipolar mixed states
- 16 The use of atypical antipsychotic agents in the treatment of diagnostic subgroups of bipolar disorder: mixed and pure states, psychotic and non-psychotic
- 17 Investigational strategies: treatment of rapid cycling, mixed episodes, and atypical bipolar mood disorder
- Index
- References
15 - The treatment of bipolar mixed states
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Bipolar disorders beyond major depression and euphoric mania
- 2 Emerging concepts of mixed states: a longitudinal perspective
- 3 Rapid-cycling bipolar disorder
- 4 Bipolar I and bipolar II: a dichotomy?
- 5 Recurrent brief depression as an indicator of severe mood disorders
- 6 Atypical depression and its relation to bipolar spectrum
- 7 Agitated depression: spontaneous and induced
- 8 Schizoaffective mixed states
- 9 Acute and transient psychotic disorder: an atypical bipolar disorder?
- 10 Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents
- 11 Atypical features of bipolarity in old age
- 12 Comorbidity in mixed states and rapid-cycling forms of bipolar disorders
- 13 Challenges in the genetics of bipolar disorder
- 14 Biological aspects of rapid-cycling and mixed states
- 15 The treatment of bipolar mixed states
- 16 The use of atypical antipsychotic agents in the treatment of diagnostic subgroups of bipolar disorder: mixed and pure states, psychotic and non-psychotic
- 17 Investigational strategies: treatment of rapid cycling, mixed episodes, and atypical bipolar mood disorder
- Index
- References
Summary
Mixed states pose particular problems in their classification, diagnosis, and treatment, because they may be conceptualized as arising in a variety of ways (Table 15.1).
Mixture of elements (mood, activity, thinking)
Mixed states may represent a mixture of different elements of depressed and manic conditions. For Kraepelin, the core pathology of clinical depression was expressed in separate areas of functioning: lowering of mood, and slowed or retarded mental and physical activity. The opposite applied in mania: euphoria, flight of ideas, and hyperactivity. Kraepelin (1913) recognized six mixed states, the most common being depressive or anxious mania, excited depression, and depression with flight of ideas. Others were manic stupor, mania with poverty of thought, and inhibited mania (without flight of ideas). Other combinations were theoretically possible but rarely recognized in practice. Kraepelin distinguished “autonomous” mixed episodes from those occurring during transitions from one mood phase to another (see transition state during a cycle, below) and thought them to be “the most unfavourable form of manic-depressive insanity.”
Severe stage of mania
The mixed state may represent a qualitatively distinct presentation of mania, with classical manic symptoms accompanied by marked anxiety, depression, or anger. These symptoms tend to emerge in more severe stages of the illness and then to be correlated in severity; thus Carlson and Goodwin (1973) described three stages of mania through which an episode may develop, corresponding to mild, moderate, and severe levels of symptoms.
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- Bipolar DisordersMixed States, Rapid Cycling and Atypical Forms, pp. 324 - 352Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005
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