From Kanye West to Heston Blumenthal: why bipolar is dominating the cultural conversation - Bipolar disorder is back under the spotlight, as is the uneasy debate surrounding accountability and celebri ...

Valerie Taylor's research explores links between gut bacteria and bipolar disorder, testing faecal microbiota transplants as potential treatments for mental illness.

Although the mood-stabilizing drugs lithium and valproate are considered gold standards when it comes to managing bipolar disorder, relying on just one of those may not be ideal. That's why adjunctive ...

These efforts to espouse hope that cure is within reach is potentially guilt -inducing for those with bipolar disorder who experience the prospect of cure as being beyond their reach. From the ...

Bipolar patients tend to have gray matter reductions in frontal brain regions involved in self-control (orange colors), while sensory and visual regions are normal (gray colors). Source: Courtesy of ...

Treatment-resistant bipolar depression (TRBD) is a major challenge in psychiatric practice, leading to marked impairment in functioning and quality of life, and increased healthcare utilization.

It’s a growing problem in relationships. About 1 in 10 couples struggles to get pregnant within a year, which is the clinical definition of infertility. The issue is becoming more common due to ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) were treated as distinct and unrelated psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder characterized by altered thinking and ...

With extreme weather events, fires and floods growing increasingly common, general warnings are no longer adequate. Researchers at Uppsala University, in collaboration with the World Meteorological ...

University of Iowa researchers led by John Wemmie, MD, PhD, have shown that an existing drug, currently used to treat glaucoma, altitude sickness, and seizures, may also have potential for preventing ...