Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that is characterized by dramatic mood episodes that include mania or hypomania. These “high” moods alternate with periods of depression. People who ...

It’s a brain disorder yielding patterns of mood variability and energetic intensity that interfere with healthy adaptive functioning. For most without bipolarity mood doesn’t shift significantly, at ...

Anger can be a symptom of bipolar disorder — but why does it escalate into intense rage? Here’s how to manage it. Tick-tock, tick-tock, goes the anger clock. Jeffrey M.’s wife has just said something ...

Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia overlap in some ways. For instance, both can lead to psychosis, a state of mind causing a detachment from reality. Although they have some similarities, they’re very ...

An early predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been found in youth with bipolar disorder (BD), in new findings that may explain the "excessive and premature mortality" related to heart disease ...

Research has shown that Black patients are less likely to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder as opposed to schizophrenia, and a study published in 2023 found that Black patients with bipolar disorder ...

Is your child often irritable or prone to temper outbursts? Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, clarifies the distinctions between bipolar disorder and Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), ...