Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have identified associations between bipolar disorder and rare loss-of-function variants in two genes. Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are severe mental ...

It's sometimes tricky to tell whether someone you care about has bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. They're both mental illnesses that affect how people think and act, and some of the symptoms ...

Do you have bipolar disorder and want to become pregnant or are pregnant already? Perhaps you have bipolar disorder and do not want a pregnancy. Be sure to talk with both your obstetrician and ...

Our award-winning bpHope Blog is a collection of posts written with heartfelt honesty by a group of bloggers from around the world, with each providing their own unique perspectives on living with ...

The energy of mania or hypomania can be tempting, but stability offers more. Here’s how to choose it — and why it’s worth it with bipolar disorder. Hypomania — and even mania — has a certain allure, ...

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 ...

There are two types of bipolar disorder bipolar 1 disorder and bipolar 2 disorder. Bipolar 1 disorder is characterized by moods vacillating between depression and mania. With bipolar 2 disorder, moods ...

World Bipolar Day is celebrated each year on March 30th, the birthday of Vincent Van Gogh, who was posthumously diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. World Bipolar Day takes place on 30 March each ...

The two most common mood disorders are major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder. Major depressive disorder is characterised by a persistent and pervasive sadness of mood, anhedonia ...

To an outsider, bipolar disorder and depression might seem very similar, with periods of intense sadness, hardly any energy to do the things you used to love and difficulty concentrating on work ...

Research is ongoing to better predict manic and depressive episodes in bipolar disorder to help support treatment. Learn more about some of the most common methods and tools. Bipolar disorder is a ...