People who carry a bitter "supertaster gene" have been linked to various health conditions including bipolar disorder and poor kidney function, University of Queensland researchers have found.

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that is characterized by dramatic mood episodes that include mania or hypomania. These “high” moods alternate with periods of depression.

Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that includes at least one manic episode – characterized by elevated or agitated mood and often reduced need for sleep – accompanied by episodes of major ...

Around 40 million people around the world have bipolar disorder, which involves cyclical swings between moods: from depression to mania. Kay Redfield Jamison is one of those people. She's also a ...

To continue its groundbreaking bipolar disorder research, Northwell Health’s The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research has been awarded $2.3 million and joined the Breakthrough Discoveries ...

David J. Miklowitz, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of Colorado and a nationally recognized expert on bipolar disorder. The creator of a family focused psychotherapy for the ...

Amy Tee knows a thing or two about bipolar disorder. She had a vibrant career as a nationally touring comic and was a featured comedian in the film Laughing Matters: The Next Generation ...

Bipolar disorder is a mental health disorder that was previously called manic depressive psychosis or manic depression. The condition is typically characterized by a mood that "swings" from a ...

Living with bipolar disorder is like riding an emotional roller coaster without a seatbelt. For nearly 40 million people worldwide, the disorder shifts between extremes of euphoria and despair ...

"The risk of developing a psychiatric disorder seems to therefore not just depend on what genes you have, but how your genes are expressed," explains Janine Knauer-Arloth, leader of the Project ...

I’ll admit that, despite knowing and loving multiple people with the condition, I had no idea that more people have bipolar than dementia in the UK. But, Bipolar UK tells me, that’s the case ...

Kanye’s public on-again, off-again approach to medication for treating his bipolar disorder has been linked to erratic behavior. While he has referenced God and Jesus throughout his ...