bipolar disorder

noun

, Psychiatry.

1. an affective disorder characterized by periods of mania alternating with periods of depression, usually interspersed with relatively long intervals of normal mood.

bipolar disorder

noun

1. a mental health problem characterized by an alternation between extreme euphoria and deep depression

bipolar disorder

1. Any of several mood disorders usually characterized by periods of depression that alternate with mania.

bipolar disorder

1. Also known as manic-depressive illness . This psychiatric disorder is marked by periods of euphoric (manic) highs often followed by periods of depression.

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They were also asked whether the participants' parents, siblings or children were ever diagnosed with major depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder or other mood or psychiatric disorders.

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Study indicates that a fitness tracker can detect mood episodes in bipolar disorder to help drive treatment.

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Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, evaluated whether data collected from a fitness tracker could be used to accurately detect mood episodes in people with bipolar disorder.

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Their findings, published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, indicate that it is possible to detect time intervals when patients with bipolar disorder are experiencing depression or mania with high accuracy using data from fitness tracking devices.

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"Most people are walking around with personal digital devices like smartphones and smartwatches that capture day-to-day data that could inform psychiatric treatment. Our goal was to use that data to identify when study participants diagnosed with bipolar disorder were experiencing mood episodes," said corresponding author Jessica Lipschitz, PhD, an investigator in the Brigham's Department of Psychiatry.

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