Word: manic
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Bipolar, or manic, depression is characterizedby cyclic fluctations between depressed states andstates of mania, or hyperactivity...
...Manic depression occurs more rarely thanunipolar depression but is believed to have astronger genetic component. Thus, manicdepressives often have a family history of theailment...
...well of quite a different baseball tale, Bull Durham) had no choice either. To cop some psychological plea for Cobb, to sentimentalize him would have been impossible. You have to allow him his monstrousness, and hope that honest people will find something of their worst selves in his manic cynicism and endless misanthropy...
There have been setbacks. Despite compelling evidence that manic depression, a mental illness characterized by extreme mood swings, runs in families, no one has isolated the genes responsible for the disorder. Several candidates have been identified, only to be discarded. But while the geneticists have hit a snag, the brain chemists are moving faster than anyone thought possible, and have produced an impressive array of practical results...
Week 1 on any job can be nerve-racking -- all of those new faces, new procedures and new coffee machines. At TIME, with the added pressures of a weekly newsmagazine, it can be positively manic. So Lee Aitken, our newest senior editor, was already busy enough last Thursday evening when, four days into her first week -- and less than 48 hours from deadline -- she was asked to oversee our late-breaking cover story on Susan Smith, the young South Carolina mother accused of murdering her children. It was an assignment whose challenge amounted almost to hazing, but Aitken brought...