Prednisone, a steroid, is prescribed to millions of Americans, often to treat chronic inflammation. While mood swings are a known side effect, some patients say they experienced much worse. They say ...

(Mar. 4, 2008) — A small, three-week trial of tamoxifen, a drug typically used to treat breast cancer, indicates that it also may decrease symptoms of mania in patients with bipolar disorder, ...

Patients suffering from serious mental illness who are hospitalized for mania are more likely to be taking antibiotics to treat infections than patients without a mental disorder, according to a new ...

March 26, 2012 (Washington, DC) — Despite the stigma it seems to have for some patients and their families, lithium is just as effective for treating mania in older patients with bipolar disorder (BD) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mania was associated with reduced dopamine transporter density levels among those with bipolar disorder, ...

Bipolar disorder is both prevalent and disabling. Surveys suggest that patients with bipolar disorder are often misdiagnosed on initial presentation, most often with major depressive disorder. These ...

Transmission of reward signals is a function of dopamine, a neurotransmitter known to be involved in the mechanism of psychosis. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated how ...

The chronicity of bipolar disorder makes both diagnosis and management challenging, even for experienced clinicians. Without a detailed history, symptoms may be missed. A focus limited to current ...

Manic-depression, or bipolar disorder, is one of the most misdiagnosed conditions in psychiatry. Part of the problem, as noted in yesterday's post, is that the term bipolar has been watered down to an ...