We all experience variations in mood, activity, and energy. For some people, these variations are so extreme that they become dysfunctional. Psychiatry is the discipline that has paid most attention ...

Bipolar II disorder is a mental health condition that involves periods of depression and periods of elevated mood, called hypomania. All forms of bipolar disorder involve shifts in mood and levels of ...

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that affects 4.4% of US adults at some point in their lives, according to the ...

Bipolar disorders include several disorders of emotion, energy and thought that are characterized by biphasic mood episodes of mania or hypomania and depression and are expressed as recurrent episodes ...

If you think bipolar disorder describes a mental health condition that can cause extreme changes in mood and behavior, you’ve mostly got the basics. But its two main subtypes—bipolar I and bipolar ...

When I cycled through episodes of feeling so depressed and hopeless I could barely get out of bed with periods of euphoria, energy, and super creativity all within the same week, I thought I was going ...

Discover the latest research breakthroughs and practical resources to better understand and manage bipolar disorder. Every day, new research and resources about bipolar disorder enter the world. Which ...

Mariah Carey made a surprising announcement on Wednesday: She has bipolar disorder. Carey, 48, told People that she was first diagnosed in 2001, after being hospitalized for a physical and mental ...

Diagnosing the psychiatric condition of dead historical figures is risky business, and in a largely unconvincing book, Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Gartner falls prey to the modern tendency to reduce an ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My friend recently bought a new car on a whim and announced he was leaving on a cross-country trip without planning a destination or duration. Now he’s uninterested in any activity ...