The concept of bipolar disorder grew out of Emil Kraepelin‘s classification of Manic depressive insanity, when differentiated it from Dementia Precocox. Kraepelin described manic depressive insanity as a cyclic illness that leads to dysfunction only during the illness period and has relatively better prognosis (Kraepelin, 1904). However, bipolar illness has been known since ancient times as description of mania like state can be found in the writings of Hippocrates...
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