Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that causes dramatic shifts in a person’s mood, energy and ability to think clearly.

Preface: In a recent piece, Our Avoidant Boys, a reader started a conversation about marijuana use as a self medication. He pointed out that two great scientists, Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman ...

Bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) is a brain disorder characterized by cyclic mood swings of extreme highs called mania and intense lows known as depression. With proper drugs and ...

D.C.-based biotech company Vanda Pharmaceuticals saw its stock jump after a drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration to be used as a treatment for bipolar disorder. Fanapt, developed by ...

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

Nine health bodies, including the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Royal Pharmaceutical Society, have written a letter to U.K. Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock MP urging ...

Pea-sized brains grown in a lab have for the first time revealed the unique way neurons might misfire due to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, psychiatric ailments that affect millions of people ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The National Alliance on Mental Illness reports that bipolar disorder is now the third most common mental health concern in the U.S. Bipolar disorder is often described as a ...

Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. stock is down 17% since my July "hold" rating; the FDA approved Fanapt for bipolar I disorder, and stock jumped. The approval of Fanapt for bipolar disorder may not ...

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that affects 4.4% of US adults at some point in their lives, according to the ...