Lithium or forms of lithium extended-release (Lithobid), a mood-stabilizing medication used for bipolar disorder, can improve symptoms during manic and mixed episodes, and is one of the primary ...

Bipolar Disorder Can Increase The Risk Of Parkinson's, Says Study; Know Symptoms And Treatment. Bipolar disorder causes major fluctuations in the mood of the patient. A recent stu ...

Bipolar disorder exists on a spectrum rather than as a single, uniform condition. This fundamental characteristic explains why two people with the same diagnosis can experience dramatically different ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has approved Fanapt tablets for the acute treatment of manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar I ...

Estimates of prevalence vary, but up to 40 percent (i.e., Fagiolini et al., 2015) of people with bipolar disorder are prone to mixed episodes. This means that the patient experiences at least a few ...

Bipolar disorder is a complicated mental health condition that can go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for years. Hypomanic episodes, one key aspect of the condition, can be especially tough to pick up on.

Schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder are two conditions that have many differences between them. A class of medicines called antipsychotics can be used to treat both conditions but may cause unwanted ...

New research from the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of ...

The approval of medicines called second-generation antipsychotics has allowed bipolar I and some conditions that come with it to be treated. A person who has bipolar I disorder can go through various ...