Bipolar disorder is a serious mental health condition affecting 2.8 percent of adults in the United States. It involves episodes of mania (extreme highs) and depression (intense lows).

Bipolar II disorder presents with less severe hypomanic episodes that don’t reach full mania’s intensity or duration. While these elevated states may appear productive or merely energetic to ...

Largest ever multi-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis of bipolar disorder provides novel insights into the genetic basis of bipolar.

Researchers from the University of Adelaide are hopeful a recent biological discovery could lead to the precision treatment ...

If you have bipolar II disorder, you'll get "low-grade" periods of mania. When that happens, you might have "up" moods and high energy, but your symptoms don't get in the way of your daily life.

A new medical study out of Johns Hopkins Children's Center could potentially be a game changer for those suffering certain ...

Is the differentiation between bipolar I and bipolar II disorder an accurate one? The author suggests that alternative approaches to classification of bipolar disorder may provide a more useful ...

Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorders: Focus on Bipolar Disorder I and Bipolar Disorder II. MedGenMed 4(3), 2002 [formerly published in Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health eJournal 7(4), 2002].

Australian researchers have unveiled a cutting-edge genetic tool that can forecast how effectively individuals with bipolar ...

Before I published my memoir, Bipolar: A Gift of Thorns, I was ashamed to tell people I was writing about my experience being bipolar. For me, it was difficult to overcome the stigma associated with ...

And on Tuesday, BD² – in partnership with the non-profit organization Brain Canada – announced that US$2.3-million will be ...