KEYNOTE: Hope - and help - for a complex diagnosis More and more people are being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which affects 2.6 percent of all American adults. This diagnosis can be scary for patients and their loved ones, but new medications, therapies, and lifestyle changes have transformed treatment and benefited patients. With this health guide, you'll find authoritative, reassuring advice on topics like: *The causes of bipolar disorder *Common side effects to medications *Alternative and non-traditional approaches *Mania and manic episodes *Links between bipolar and other disorders This completely revised and updated edition includes the latest treatment options as well as recent studies and classifications. Bipolar disorder is a complex diagnosis. With this positive, supportive guide, you'll find the answers to all your questions--even the ones you haven't thought to ask. AUTHOR: Dean Haycock, PhD earned a fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health to study at the Rockefeller University. The results of his research, conducted in academia and in the pharmaceutical industry, have been published in the Journals of Neurochemistry, Biological Chemistry, and Brain Research. He has contributed articles on a variety of topics to The Gale Encyclopaedia of Mental Health.