It wasn’t every day that Patricia Torres raced down the streets of Miami at 70 m.p.h. But then it wasn’t every day that her daughter Nicole Cabezas hallucinated wildly, trying to jump out of the car, ...

Like many people, Joscelyn Guzman knew what it was like to be depressed. For much of her life, she had been shown compassion and empathy whenever she spoke about her struggles with depression — that ...

Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression) Treatment Centers Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a chronically recurring condition involving moods that swing between the highs of mania and ...

My mother Penelope suffered from manic depression. That’s what they called it in 1970. One of my earliest memories is of two ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers have uncovered important factors associated with the switch from mania to depression among ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, along with collaborators at the University of Michigan and Sage Bionetworks, has won the Mood Challenge for ResearchKit, a contest ...

Bipolar disorder is characterized by bouts of extreme mood, with episodes of mania occurring alongside periods of depression. For the first time, researchers have now isolated the genetic factors ...

Researchers have announced preliminary results of using wearable technology to measure electrical impulses in the skin and other physiological biomarkers which might be associated with mood changes in ...

When you live with bipolar depression, your body clock may be off kilter. It’s called circadian disruption. Your circadian rhythm is the 24-hour cycle that dictates your body’s schedule. When you ...

Treatment with modern antidepressants may help prevent patients with bipolar disorder from relapsing into a depressive episode, according to an international clinical trial led by researchers at the ...

Manic-depression, or bipolar disorder, is one of the most misdiagnosed conditions in psychiatry. Part of the problem, as noted in yesterday's post, is that the term bipolar has been watered down to an ...