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 ...

People with Bipolar I disorder have full-blown manic attacks and deep, paralyzing depressions. A World Health Organization survey found the prevalence rate of bipolar I disorder to be 0.6 percent.

Bipolar symptoms include depression, fatigue, impulsivity, and moments of high energy. Signs of bipolar disorder can vary in frequency and intensity depending on if you have type 1 or 2. Bipolar ...

Tiny lab-grown brains are offering an unprecedented look at how schizophrenia and bipolar disorder disrupt neural activity.

Mood disorders include depressive disorders and bipolar disorders. These types of psychiatric disorders affect a person’s emotions and may cause severe lows, called depression, and highs, called mania ...

Using lab-grown brain tissue, researchers uncovered complex patterns of neural signaling that differ subtly between healthy ...

When it comes to diagnosing mood disorders or personality disorders, it’s important to recognize that there is often a great amount of variability in how a particular disorder might manifest. While ...

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 ...

Mini-brains' grown in the lab allow scientists to study brain wiring without interfering with brains in living people, and ...