Living with bipolar disorder means making complex treatment decisions, managing distressing symptoms, and wondering why certain challenges keep showing up. Your journey is yours to navigate, but you ...

The first systematic review on the effects of bipolar medications on the gut microbiome furthers our understanding of the connection between the gut and the brain in patients treated for bipolar ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) were treated as distinct and unrelated psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder characterized by altered thinking and ...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry suggests that chronic cannabis use may not be associated with cognitive ...

Dear Doctors: My 22-year-old son is severely bipolar, which impacts his life terribly. I have kept up with the studies that have shown success in treating bipolar with a fecal transplant. Do you know ...

Reduced Gray Matter may be seen in bipolar patients on atypical antipsychotics Source: Michèle Hilbers/Unsplash While atypical anti-psychotics (AAPs) are a vital part of treating disorders with ...

The piece below is adapted from a Q&A with Dr. Robert M.A. Hirschfeld that originally appeared in the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation's January 2016 Quarterly publication. Dr. Robert M.A.

Mice that have a particular brain chemical switched off become hyperactive and sleep for just 65 per cent of their normal time. This discovery, published in the journal Neuron, could help researchers ...

DEAR DOCTORS: My 22-year-old son is severely bipolar, which impacts his life terribly. I have kept up with the studies that have shown success in treating bipolar with a fecal transplant. Do you know ...