Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that causes significant and sudden changes in mood that involve episodes of mania and sometimes depression. There is no cure for bipolar disorder, so ...

Bipolar disorder exists on a spectrum rather than as a single, uniform condition. This fundamental characteristic explains why two people with the same diagnosis can experience dramatically different ...

Bipolar disorder is a long-term mood disorder characterized by major fluctuations in mood — both high and low — that can impact daily functioning and behavior. Although bipolar disorder is a chronic ...

Each month, The Clinical Advisor makes one new clinical feature available ahead of print. Don’t forget to take the poll. The results will be published in the next month’s issue. Bipolar disorder is a ...

Changes Clinical Practice: Based on this large trial, lithium alone or a lithium-valproate combination should be used as first-line maintenance treatment for bipolar affective disorder type I instead ...

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 ...

BD²: Breakthrough Discoveries for thriving with Bipolar Disorder today announced the first public release of data from the BD² Integrated Network Longitudinal Cohort Study (LCS).

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) appears to be far more effective than algorithm-based drug therapy for treatment-resistant bipolar depression in what is believed to be the first randomized, controlled ...

The University of Cincinnati is partnering with UCLA Health on a groundbreaking pilot study to investigate whether a ketogenic diet, when used alongside standard medications, can improve symptoms in ...

Many people with bipolar disorder spend years in open-ended talk therapy that never quite gets to the heart of the problem. Traditional unstructured therapy can feel supportive in the moment but often ...

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Baszucki Group today announced the launch of two new initiatives across multiple sites exploring the effectiveness of ketogenic therapy for children and adolescents ...