BD affects millions but remains misunderstood, underdiagnosed, and underfunded. Researchers are working to change this by ...

Bipolar disorder can cause extreme mood swings, and be debilitating without treatment. In an effort to untangle the mysteries of where bipolar disorder originates, researchers studied the genomes of ...

Without treatment, bipolar disorder may cause mood episodes. People may alternate between high periods, known as manic episodes, and low periods, or depressive episodes. During a manic episode ...

Myth 2: Medication Is the Only Treatment for Bipolar Disorder "For people with bipolar disorder, therapy is essential," Medina shares. While medication can treat mood symptoms of bipolar disorder ...

UCLA Health is set to begin a multi-site pilot study to explore whether a ketogenic diet, when combined with mood stabilizing medications, helps stabilize mood symptoms in teenagers and young adults ...

The differential diagnosis among these and with regard to other disorders with similar symptom features remains the foundation for treatment of bipolar disorders. It is clear that much diversity ...

Scientists have pinpointed nearly 300 "hotspots" in the human genome that may increase the risk of bipolar disorder. In the largest study of its kind to date, an international research team conducted ...

Future clinical-translation work 4 could explore how our findings can inform precision-medicine approaches for bipolar disorder, in which treatments are chosen on the basis of an individual’s ...

In a post-hoc analysis, cariprazine seemed to be effective in treating both depressive and manic episodes of bipolar I disorder across age groups.