Stories tagged "bipolardisorder" - Page 2

About 44 percent of individuals who had bipolar disorder as children continue to have manic episodes as young adults, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. This rate, along with th

An in-depth treatment of a heart-breaking situation -- bipolar disorder in children.

What does it mean to be a manic-depressive child?

Liz Spikol gives her 2 cents about the mental health care system/criminal justice system as they relate to this particular sad case.

The highlights of the recently published ECNP consensus statement on bipolar depression were presented by the renowned British researcher Guy M. Goodwin, Oxford. The apparent differences between unipolar and bipolar depression arise in diagnosis and epide

Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle have just published results from a 2-year-long overview of the employment status of outpatients with bipolar disorder.

How vigorously should we treat depression?

The size of a small part of the brain that apparently plays a big role in memory and mood disorders is influenced by variations in a blood-vessel gene, Yale researchers have found, suggesting new ways to understand and treat depression, bipolar disorder a

A large genetic study of bipolar disorder has implicated machinery that balances levels of sodium and calcium in neurons. The disorder was associated with variation in two genes that make components of such ion channels. Although it's not yet known if or

For those who want the statistics, here they are. Take these with a huge block of salt, however.