Bipolar disorder is a condition in which a person experiences dramatic shifts in mood and energy, but at severities that are different from the mood changes the average person goes through. But a ...

Yesterday, I couldn’t stand being inside my skin. It felt like a prison, this body of mine that didn’t know what it wanted or why it was here. I squirmed through the day, fussing and eating and eating ...

Some patients with bipolar disorder suffer mixed states, defined in DSM as manic episodes with depressive or dysphoric features. These states are exacerbated by antidepressants and preferentially ...

March 3, 2009 — The presence of manic symptoms coexisting with depression may predict treatment-emergent mania caused by antidepressant therapy, a small study suggests. Three manic symptoms in ...

Credit: Getty Images. Lumateperone 42mg given once daily met the primary endpoint in the study. Lumateperone monotherapy was associated with significant improvement of major depressive episodes in ...

Results from a randomized trial indicate Saphris was effective and well-tolerated among adolescents with bipolar I disorder and manic or mixed episodes. “Several atypical antipsychotics (risperidone, ...

KIRKLAND, QC, Jan. 22 /CNW/ - Pfizer Canada Inc. announced today that Health Canada has approved ZELDOX (ziprasidone hydrochloride), for use in the treatment of acute manic or mixed episodes ...

Lumateperone 42mg was statistically significant on the primary endpoint of symptom reduction on the Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) for each patient population including: -combined ...

One of the largest ever studies of patients with untreatable bipolar disorder has shown that ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) was able to reduce suicide risk by 84% in high-risk patients, as well as ...