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The Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS), developed and popularised by Robert Young and Vincent E Ziegler, is an eleven-item multiple choice diagnostic questionnaire which psychiatrists use to measure the presence and severity of mania and associated symptoms.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 10 relations: Bipolar disorder, Diagnosis, List of diagnostic classification and rating scales used in psychiatry, Mania, Multiple choice, Pediatrics, Psychiatrist, Reliability (statistics), Test validity, Young Mania Rating Scale.

  2. Bipolar disorder
  3. Mania screening and assessment tools
  4. Screening and assessment tools in child and adolescent psychiatry
  5. Treatment of bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood that each last from days to weeks. Young Mania Rating Scale and Bipolar disorder are depression (mood) and mood disorders.

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Diagnosis

Diagnosis (diagnoses) is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon.

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List of diagnostic classification and rating scales used in psychiatry

The following diagnostic systems and rating scales are used in psychiatry and clinical psychology. Young Mania Rating Scale and List of diagnostic classification and rating scales used in psychiatry are mental disorders screening and assessment tools.

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Mania

Mania, also known as manic syndrome, is a mental and behavioral disorder defined as a state of abnormally elevated arousal, affect, and energy level, or "a state of heightened overall activation with enhanced affective expression together with lability of affect." During a manic episode, an individual will experience rapidly changing emotions and moods, highly influenced by surrounding stimuli. Young Mania Rating Scale and mania are Bipolar disorder and mood disorders.

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Multiple choice

Multiple choice (MC), objective response or MCQ (for multiple choice question) is a form of an objective assessment in which respondents are asked to select only correct answers from the choices offered as a list.

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Pediatrics

Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

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Psychiatrist

A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry.

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Reliability (statistics)

In statistics and psychometrics, reliability is the overall consistency of a measure.

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Test validity

Test validity is the extent to which a test (such as a chemical, physical, or scholastic test) accurately measures what it is supposed to measure.

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Young Mania Rating Scale

The Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS), developed and popularised by Robert Young and Vincent E Ziegler, is an eleven-item multiple choice diagnostic questionnaire which psychiatrists use to measure the presence and severity of mania and associated symptoms. Young Mania Rating Scale and Young Mania Rating Scale are Bipolar disorder, depression (mood), mania screening and assessment tools, mental disorders screening and assessment tools, mood disorders, Screening and assessment tools in child and adolescent psychiatry and Treatment of bipolar disorder.

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See also

Bipolar disorder

Mania screening and assessment tools

Screening and assessment tools in child and adolescent psychiatry

Treatment of bipolar disorder

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Mania_Rating_Scale

Also known as YMRS.