Conditions involving episodes of abnormally elevated, expansive, or irritable mood alongside increased energy or activity.
A prominent and persistent disturbance of mood characterized by elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, with or without depressed mood, that is judged, from history, physical exam, or laboratory findings, to be the direct pathophysiological consequence of another medical condition (such as Cushing's disease, multiple sclerosis, or a stroke affecting mood-regulating circuitry).
A condition defined by the occurrence of at least one manic episode -- a distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood with increased energy, lasting at least one week (or requiring hospitalization).
A bipolar-spectrum disorder defined by at least one hypomanic episode AND at least one major depressive episode, with the critical exclusion that a full manic episode has never occurred -- the depressive episodes are typically the more functionally impairing and treatment-seeking component.
Numerous periods of hypomanic symptoms and numerous periods of depressive symptoms, neither reaching the severity or duration threshold for a full hypomanic or major depressive episode, persisting for at least two years (one year in children/adolescents).
A residual classification for presentations with symptoms characteristic of a bipolar and related disorder causing clinically significant distress or impairment that do not meet full criteria for Bipolar I, Bipolar II, or Cyclothymic Disorder.
A prominent and persistent disturbance of mood characterized by elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, with or without depressed mood, that developed during or soon after substance intoxication, withdrawal, or exposure to a medication capable of producing manic/hypomanic-type symptoms, where the substance/medication is judged etiologically related to the disturbance.
Distinguish mania caused directly by a medical condition from mania caused by a medication used to treat that condition.
Apply the 4-day minimum duration criterion distinguishing Other Specified Bipolar Disorder from Bipolar II Disorder.
Recognize the timing and pharmacological evidence needed to diagnose a substance/medication-induced mood disorder rather than an independent bipolar disorder.
Distinguish a manic episode from ordinary stress-related energy and from a substance-induced presentation.
Recognize Bipolar II Disorder's hypomanic episode pattern -- distinct in duration, severity, and impairment from Cyclothymic Disorder's chronic subthreshold mood swings and from Bipolar I Disorder's manic episodes.