It’s a brain disorder yielding patterns of mood variability and energetic intensity that interfere with healthy adaptive functioning. For most without bipolarity mood doesn’t shift significantly, at ...

Researchers have developed a new way of improving diagnosis of bipolar disorder that uses a simple blood test to identify biomarkers associated with the condition. Researchers have developed a new way ...

Bipolar disorder is characterized by bouts of extreme mood, with episodes of mania occurring alongside periods of depression. For the first time, researchers have now isolated the genetic factors ...

It used to be called manic depression in an effort to capture the swing of emotions from intense manic highs to the lowest of lows. Today it’s called bipolar disorder, another way to describe a mental ...

Bipolar disorder and alcohol problems seem to go hand-in-hand, leading to a widespread belief that drinking acts as a kind of 'self medication' to ease bipolar's life-altering symptoms of mania, ...

Only 29% of bipolar disorder patients are prescribed lithium, even though it produces the best clinical results.

An early predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been found in youth with bipolar disorder (BD), in new findings that may explain the "excessive and premature mortality" related to heart disease ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge said that biomarkers in a blood test can be used to better diagnose bipolar disorder. Photo by Belova59/Pixabay Oct. 25 (UPI) --Researchers at the ...

Researchers have developed a new way of improving diagnosis of bipolar disorder that uses a simple blood test to identify biomarkers associated with the condition. The researchers, from the University ...