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How Do Happiness and Sadness Circuits Contribute to Bipolar Disorder?
January 14, 2013 — Bipolar disorder is a severe mood disorder characterized by unpredictable and dramatic mood swings between the highs of mania and lows of depression. These mood episodes occur among periods of ... > full story -
Brain Imaging Identifies Bipolar Disorder Risk in Adolescents
December 17, 2012 — Australian researchers have used brain imaging technology to show that young people with a known risk of bipolar (but as yet have no signs of the condition) have clear and quantifiable differences in ... > full story -
First Study of New Treatment for Early Stage Bipolar Disorder
December 17, 2012 — A new clinical trial of people who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder for less than five years will be the first study of its kind to shed light on how new treatments could be more effective ... > full story -
Pregnancy and Birth Complications More Likely in Mothers With Bipolar Disorder
November 8, 2012 — Babies born to mothers with bipolar disorder are at increased risk of preterm birth (before 37 weeks), a new study ... > full story -
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Link Between Creativity and Mental Illness Confirmed in Large-Scale Swedish Study
October 16, 2012 — People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness than the general population, there being a particularly salient connection between writing and schizophrenia, according to ... > full story -
Replicating Risk Genes in Bipolar Disorder
October 15, 2012 — One of the biggest challenges in psychiatric genetics has been to replicate findings across large studies. Scientists have now performed one of the largest ever genetic replication studies of bipolar ... > full story -
Scientists Pinpoint Gene Variations Linked to Higher Risk of Bipolar Disorder
October 10, 2012 — Scientists have identified small variations in a number of genes that are closely linked to an increased risk of bipolar disorder, a mental illness that affects nearly six million ... > full story -
Giving Lithium to Those Who Need It
September 21, 2012 — Lithium is a ‘gold standard’ drug for treating bipolar disorder, however not everyone responds in the same way. New research finds that this is true at the levels of gene activation, ... > full story -
Flying High: Researchers Decipher Manic Gene
September 1, 2012 — Flying high, or down in the dumps -- individuals suffering from bipolar disorder alternate between depressive and manic episodes. Researchers have now discovered, based on patient data and ... > full story -
Making Sense out of the Biological Matrix of Bipolar Disorder
August 20, 2012 — The more that we understand the brain, the more complex it becomes. The same can be said about the genetics and neurobiology of psychiatric disorders. Researchers have now utilized an integrative ... > full story
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