Thirteen articles met the inclusion criteria (see Table 2). Five [32–36] of the 13 studies were based in the US, four [37–40] in Canada, three [41–43] in the UK, and one [44] in Japan.

In summary, women with psychosis hold beliefs about their illness, which incorporate contextual factors and spiritual beliefs in addition to biomedical explanations. They developed adaptive ...

Women are more than twice as likely to develop bipolar disorder in the years leading up to the menopause, a study suggests. Researchers examined data on 128,294 UK women in the four years around ...

These rates are similar among men and women. Worldwide, the disorder affects about 45 million people, according to the World Health Organization. What age does bipolar disorder tend to develop?

Bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition. It is not yet curable, but medication, therapy, and other strategies can help manage the symptoms and reduce its effects on a person’s daily life.

There is a genetic component to bipolar disorder, but researchers are unsure which exact genes are responsible. Bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic depression, is a mental health disorder ...

Celebrities who have opened up about their bipolar diagnosis remind us that no matter how privileged a life may seem, ...

People with bipolar disorder may be at a higher risk of developing premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), but neither condition directly causes the other.

Meet Harvard-trained neuroscientist, Cape Cod writer Lisa Genova, ('Still Alice,') in East Sandwich as she explores bipolar disorder in her 6th novel.

A multi-ancestry genome-wide study of 158,036 people with bipolar disorder and 2,796,499 control individuals identified 298 genomic regions associated with the disease. Variations in 36 genes were ...

Pregnant people with multiple sclerosis (MS) have a higher chance of experiencing mental illness both during their pregnancy and in the first years after they give birth than those without MS, ...