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Understanding, treating and managing bipolar dysfunction : Brief Wave : NPR
May
Two fundamental therapy choices for bipolar dysfunction embrace medicine, just like the temper stabilizer lithium, and remedy.
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Two fundamental therapy choices for bipolar dysfunction embrace medicine, just like the temper stabilizer lithium, and remedy.
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Round 40 million folks around the globe have bipolar dysfunction, which includes cyclical swings between moods: from despair to mania.
Kay Redfield Jamison is a type of folks. She’s additionally a professor of psychiatry on the Johns Hopkins Faculty of Drugs and has written extensively concerning the subject, from medical textbooks to non-public memoirs. In truth, Jamison penned one of many first memoirs ever written by a medical physician dwelling with bipolar, An Unquiet Thoughts.
At the moment on Brief Wave, she joins us to speak concerning the prognosis 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.