Mogens Schou popularized a major treatment for this disease by yanking half his patients off it and giving them placebos, silencing a two-decade long 
Mogens Schou popularized a major treatment for this disease by yanking half his patients off it and giving them placebos, silencing a two-decade long resistance to a John Cade discovery by British psychiatry. The new "TDDD" has been proposed for the DSM-V as a replacement for pediatric diagnoses of this disease, whose key diagnostic symptom is measured by the Altman and Young scales. Frederick Goodwin co-authored the definitive text on this disorder with Kay Redfield Jamison, who described her experiences suffering from it in An Unquiet Mind. The more mild condition of cyclothymia is grouped on an eponymous spectrum of this disease, whose less-common symptoms may include rapid cycling and mixed states. It is divided into major type I and II forms based on the incidence of an event associated with racing thoughts and heightened stimulation. For 10 points, identify this mood disorder traditionally treated with lithium and characterized by a combination of depressive and manic episodes.
Mogens Schou popularized a major treatment for this disease by yanking half his patients off it and giving them placebos, silencing a two-decade long resistance to a John Cade discovery by British psychiatry.
bipolar affective disorder [or manic-depressive disorder; prompt on "mania" or similar answers] 