Sleep-wake rhythms in normal adults usually have a periodicity of 24 hours, while 48-hour sleep-wake cycles have been ...

Fresh findings explore caregiver burden, bipolar risk in PCOS, mood tracking tools, and the link between metabolism and ...

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, ...

These medicines differ in the types of bipolar symptoms they treat. Depakote and Tegretol, for example, tend to be more effective in treating mania than depressive symptoms while Lamictal appears ...

A growing body of research suggests depression may be connected to a prevalent biological process: inflammation.

They may use a screening tool, like the Mood Disorder Questionnaire ... typically have depression more than 50% of the time, while people with bipolar 1 disorder experience depression about 30% of the ...

When it's severe, it can be almost impossible to get through the day. People with bipolar disorder have highs and lows that are much more intense and longer-lasting than usual mood swings.

"Bipolar eyes" is a non-medical term used to describe changes in a person's eyes or gaze during a manic or hypomanic episode. These include changes in pupil size, the "brightness" or color of the eyes ...

The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS 17) with a total score of 17 or higher was applied to verify the diagnoses. An investigator-designed screening chart for bipolar depression (SCBPD) was ...

Jagdish, 32, sitting on the couch opposite me, had an answer to every question. His parents had got him to my OPD, saying he had been aggressive, abusive and occasionally violent over the past two ...

Likewise, neither neuroscience nor genetics has yet produced a laboratory test for mood disorders ... More often than not, bipolar disorder begins with periods of depression, and sometimes ...