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Bipolar Disorder

"Bipolar Disorder" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A major affective disorder marked by severe mood swings (manic or major depressive episodes) and a tendency to remission and recurrence.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Bipolar Disorder" by people in this website by year, and whether "Bipolar Disorder" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 237 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 19 publications in 2008
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