Bipolar disorder (formerly called manic-depressive illness or manic depression) is a mental illness that causes swings in a person's mood, energy, activity levels, and concentration.
IBS shares group of genes with schizophrenia, bipolar disease, depression, and anxiety IBS is a gastrointestinal disease affecting approximately 10 percent of the population worldwide
New Delhi: A new study has found that the common syndromesof severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder,dementia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and addiction, may have anunusual evolutionary basis. The constant prevalence of mental illness across the history of the humanspecies suggests a Darwinian paradox. Despite causing significant disease,there seems little impact on selection for fitness. […]
The study suggested that people with anxiety who develop Alzheimer's may start experiencing dementia symptoms about three years earlier than those who do not have anxiety.
"We know from prior research that minor forms of workplace mistreatment reduce employee engagement," said researcher Kayla Follmer, Assistant Professor at the West Virginia University in the US.
