Neuropsychology of Bipolar Disorder
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March 2006 “Manic-depressive illness, like other severe psychiatric disorders, has come out of the closet. Once relegated to the dark recesses of the family, it is now openly discussed as a brain disease – frequently a tragic disease, to be sure, but a disease nonetheless, like multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, or Alzheimer’s disease. The devils and demons once suspected of lurking in the brains of those afflicted have been permanently banished by the power of magnetic resonance imaging and molecular neuroscience. We are left with a brain disease whose precise cause is unknown, but for which effective treatment is, in most cases, available”
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