It used to be called manic depression in an effort to capture the swing of emotions from intense manic highs to the lowest of lows. Today it’s called bipolar disorder, another way to describe a mental ...
Bipolar disorder is a long-term mood disorder characterized by major fluctuations in mood — both high and low — that can impact daily functioning and behavior. Although bipolar disorder is a chronic ...
A team led by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, along with collaborators at the University of Michigan and Sage Bionetworks, has won the Mood Challenge for ResearchKit, a contest ...
1. Its clinical name. Bipolar Disorder is sometimes referred to by its older clinical name, Manic Depression. Bipolar Disorder is a mood disorder that greatly interferes with the quality of life for a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People with bipolar disorder may experience "spring mania" between winter and summer. Changes in daylight and circadiam rhythm can ...
It wasn’t every day that Patricia Torres raced down the streets of Miami at 70 m.p.h. But then it wasn’t every day that her daughter Nicole Cabezas hallucinated wildly, trying to jump out of the car, ...
Bipolar disorder is characterized by bouts of extreme mood, with episodes of mania occurring alongside periods of depression. For the first time, researchers have now isolated the genetic factors ...
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 ...
To an outsider, bipolar disorder and depression might seem very similar, with periods of intense sadness, hardly any energy to do the things you used to love and difficulty concentrating on work, ...
Ten years ago, at age 19, our son Matthew experienced a manic episode that landed him in the involuntary psychiatric unit at Stanford Hospital for 10 days. He was diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Living with bipolar disorder is like riding a roller coaster that you didn’t choose to get on, and one that never stops. It is a life marked by extreme highs ...