One day you’re bouncing off the walls with energy, speaking a mile-a-minute, and doing the absolute most. The next, you can’t get out of bed…and stay there for a week. This is the typical bipolar ...
Understanding your place on the bipolar spectrum can bring greater insight — and guide more effective treatment options, says psychiatrist Jim Phelps, MD. Editor’s NoteWe’re excited to launch a new ...
About 1% of our population suffers from "no doubt about it" bipolar affective disorder (bipolar I disorder). Persons with this disorder experience serious episodes of both depression and mania that ...
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 ...
Twelve and 1 participants taking metformin attempted suicide once and twice, respectively, compared with 25 and 3, respectively, among those not taking metformin. HealthDay News — The benefits of ...
Psychosis is an experience marked by changes in how information is integrated. While the hallmarks of psychosis include qualities like hallucinations and unusual beliefs, the pathways to psychosis may ...
neuron Investigators assessed the relationship between clinical and cognitive features and oddball neural deviations across the schizophrenia-bipolar spectrum. Variation in the neural processing of ...
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, ...