For any disease or disorder, an essential part of treatment development is the ability to measure and assess key clinical outcomes. In the absence of appropriate techniques, innovation will be slow.

Cognitive dysfunction is a core trait of bipolar disorder. That's a short assertion bursting at the seams with nuance and caveat. For starters, what causes this core trait? The consensus had been that ...

Not much is known about how bipolar disorder (BD) affects people throughout their lives. Do women and men differ in the severity of their symptoms? Does a person’s age when a bipolar diagnosis is made ...

Bipolar disorder may affect sleep in many ways. For example, it can lead to: When sleep is in short supply, someone with bipolar disorder may not miss it the way other people would. But even though ...

One of the more overlooked aspects of bipolar disorder is the potential for developing a degree of cognitive deficit as part of the illness. This omission reflects the reality that mainstream print ...

The strongest association was with GABRB1 SNP rs7680321 and the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) phenotype of schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type (SABP). This describes individuals who, in ...

Publication bias, especially the lack of publication of negative treatment studies, is known to be a major problem in the medical literature. In particular, it appears that the pharmaceutical industry ...

With bipolar disorder, anxiety may be part of an episode or a separate condition — and that distinction matters. Key ...