The Current Research Status and Progress of Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is a common but serious mental illness with extremely high mortality and a high suicide rate. It has variable symptoms of both depression and mania and can separate into three types of sub-types---bipolar disorder type I, bipolar disorder type II and Rapid cycling bipolar disorder. So far, scientists and medical researchers had got a lot of success in the field of bipolar disorder. Therefore, this paper proposes to conclude the recent research to discuss the status and progress of bipolar disorder, which mainly discusses the history of bipolar disorder, symptoms, treatments, and possible etiology; this paper will discuss them from the view of genetic and environmental. Besides, this paper specifically focuses on the recent innovative discovery of genetic etiology and genetic model treatment methods.