Bipolar disorder or manic-depressive syndrome associated with severe swings in mood, hindering patients' live normal lives. The first signs of illness appear in the youth, and it has assumed that they pursue a person for life. Scientists from the University of Missouri have shown that patients diagnosed with
bipolar disorder at the age of 18 and 25 years, grow it up to 30 years.
Overcoming the barrier of a certain age, the patients rapidly getting better. It was found that among people less than 24 years of common bipolar disorder reaches 6%, and among people over 30 years is just 3%. At the age of 18 and 24 years there are global changes taking place in everyone's life, which can cause stress and the development of mental illness.
Maturation of the prefrontal cortex to 25 years explains the threshold of development of bipolar disorder. Besides, one must take into account the factor of alcohol consumption by adolescents.