Bipolar distemper, otherwise known as manic-depressive sickness, is a kind disease that entails sudden mood swings between the manic pattern (short-tempered, euphoric and energetic) and the depressed phase (simply depressed). However, this disease is non too debilitating; Beethoven, the inspired composer, and Churchill, the exceptional Prime Minister of Britain during world War II, were both bipolar. It does tend to make the afflicted miserable, however, as in the case of Vincent Van Gogh.
The biggest chemical symptoms of manic feeling be the brain chemicals norpinephrine and serotonin. Norpinephrine, as well as dopamine, argon in surfeit during the manic phase, and serotonin is in excess during the depressive phase. Genes control the brain chemicals, and it was this stripping that led to the search for genes for genial disorders. Science has pondered whether a genetic cause for bipolar disorder exists since genetics became an efficient research tool, and have found some(prenominal) causes; however, the genes vary from family to family and DNA is only part of the disease. It seems doubtful that a gene-based medicine would work for more than a small incision of the population. As Steve Jones says in The style of Genes, There have been announcements of the discovery of single genes for manic depression, schizophrenia and alcoholism. All have been withdrawn. (Jones, Steve, The Language of Genes 191).
One of the biggest obstacles to finding a gene, and thus a good medicine for manic depression is misdiagnosis.
According to a TIME article, bipolar disorder entails hallucinating wildly, trying to jump out of the car, displace off clothes and ranting that people were following. Bipolar disorder does not include hallucinations; the mental disorder described is plausibly schizophrenia. Also scattered about the article are a boy who threw a butcher knife at his mom, children who are difficult to...
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