A case study shows how self narration in bipolar disorder can form an emotionally charged, coherent worldview that influences identity and care.

All the participants in these studies were unrelated, white, living in the British Isles and were of European descent. The protocols and procedures were approved by the relevant ethics review panels ...

Publication bias, especially the lack of publication of negative treatment studies, is known to be a major problem in the medical literature. In particular, it appears that the pharmaceutical industry ...

Having bipolar disorder -- a serious mental illness that can cause both manic and depressed moods -- can make life more challenging. It also comes with a higher risk of dying early. Now, a study puts ...

From a proposed overhaul of the DSM, a new therapy for between-episode symptoms, to a link with flexible joints, explore the ...

In a comprehensive study involving one of the largest-ever samples of post-mortem brains, scientists at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, in collaboration with researchers at the Johns ...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry suggests that chronic cannabis use may not be associated with cognitive ...

Researchers at King's College London and the University of Florence have, for the first time, identified the specific genetic blueprint of mania, the defining feature of bipolar disorder. Bipolar ...

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 ...

One of the more overlooked aspects of bipolar disorder is the potential for developing a degree of cognitive deficit as part of the illness. This omission reflects the reality that mainstream print ...