Description
Annotated Bibliography
In preparation for your research paper it will be important that you locate a number of scholarly sources on your chosen psychological disorder in preparation for writing your final Behavioral Neuroscience Research Paper.
Your task for this week is to create an annotated bibliography where you will locate and summarize 8 scholarly sources relate to the Biologically-Based Psychological Disorder you chose for your final research paper. There must be a minimum of 4 peer-reviewed articles from Keiser's online library and the remainder may come from books or credible websites (ending in .org, .edu. or .gov)
Explanation & Answer
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Bipolar Disorder Annotated Bibliography
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Bipolar Disorder Annotated Bibliography
Introduction
Bipolar disorder is a severe mental health issue that causes unjustifiable mood swings in
victims. Symptoms of the bipolar condition include mania and hypomania, sadness, lack of
energy, and low self-esteem. The bipolar condition causes risk factors such as suicidal thoughts
and substance abuse to victims. This consideration marks why bipolar illness is detrimental to
health and accounts for the need for immediate care. Early intervention prevents adverse
challenges related to this disease and improves the health standards of the victims. There are two
types of bipolar condition, where type II condition is more severe than type I. Patients suffering
from type II face higher depression chances, marking why this condition is detrimental. Health
workers can implement several interventions to remedy the bipolar condition.
Psychopharmacology and psychotherapy interventions, such as using lithium carbonate
stabilizers, serve as the most optimal remedies for this disorder. This paper describes an
annotated bibliography on the bipolar disorder to depict various concepts related to the topic.
Akinhanmi, M. O., Biernacka, J. M., Strakowski, S. M., McElroy, S. L., Balls Berry, J. E.,
Merikangas, K. R., ... & Frye, M. A. (2018). Racial disparities in bipolar disorder
treatment and research: a call to action. Bipolar disorders, 20(6), 506-514.
Akinhanmi et al. (2018) reviewed the racial disparities prevalent in the treatment of
bipolar depression. The scholars critiqued the phenomenological differences between African
patients and those of European origin. These researchers hypothesized that racial disparities are a
critical hindrance to effective healthcare services. Akinhanmi et al. (2018) acknowledge that
bipolar depression is a critical condition that primarily affects the African population and marks
it a sixth cause of disability globally. Essentially, this piece reveals more misdiagnosis cases
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among African patients suffering from this condition than non-Africans (Akinhanmi et al.,
2018). This aspect portrays rac...
