bipolar disorder has been depicted as erratic personality traits and rapid mood swings. Someone might sigh, "They are so bipolar," when bothered by another person's indecisions or moodiness.

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We performed the largest multi-ancestry genome-wide association study (GWAS) of bipolar disorder so far to examine the disorder’s underlying genetic and neurobiological mechanisms. We conducted ...

“If so, it would make sense that overexcitement of the PVT would play a central role in the extreme mood swings associated with bipolar disorder,” he says. Kato and his collaborators are now ...

So what to do? Besides avoiding my puerile ... including the fact that I have bipolar disorder. After asking several questions about what he still called “manic-depression,” he looked ...

A brain rhythm working in tandem with the body's natural sleep-wake cycle may explain why bipolar patients alternate between mania and depression, according to new research. The McGill University ...