Momentary shifts in mood profoundly alter the brain’s response to pleasure in people with bipolar disorder.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Bipolar disorder
Displaying 1 - 20 of 45 articles
‘Hervs’ date back hundreds of thousands of years – and play an important role in regulating genes.
This show has lots to say about the confusing time of life in your 30s, when some friends are settling down while others have just booked tickets for a pagan festival.
Tyson Fury has a history of mental ill health, something which is reflected in his series, At Home With The Furys on Netflix.
There is often a long delay between the onset of bipolar symptoms and correct diagnosis and treatment which puts vulnerable young people at risk of suicide.
Learning new rules requires the suppression of old ones. A better understanding of the brain circuits involved in behavioral adaptation could lead to new ways to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Mental health still carries significant stigma in Ghana.
Two Australians with bipolar have been successfully treated with poo transplants, allowing them to come off, or reduce, their medications. Here’s where the science is up to.
Healthy eating is not just what you eat, but when you eat. Eating rhythms that are in sync with the circadian clock can benefit general well-being and may have a protective effect against mental illness.
The media often reflects personal and professional biases and community misunderstandings about trauma.
Research on the genetic basis of mental illness has so far largely excluded anyone who is not of European heritage.
Kanye West’s recent outbursts have shone a spotlight on his struggles with bipolar disorder. The condition involves alternating periods of intense mania and severe depression.
Physical health conditions and socioeconomic disadvantage are both major reasons for this gap.
Are high profile celebrities trivialising bipolar disorder by linking it to creativity?
Treatment needs to focus on fewer antidepressants, more lithium and supportive group education.
Research shows that ketamine can produce long-term reductions in symptoms of treatment-resistant depression.
Largest study to date finds link between disturbed circadian rhythm and mood disorders.
Media portrayals don’t help misconceptions about disorders such as bipolar, schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder. So what do these terms actually mean?
Bipolar disorder is an often misunderstood psychiatric illness. An expert defines it and explains how it is diagnosed and treated.
Researchers are developing gene-based tests to better predict who will respond to different types of medication, and which to avoid.
Top contributors
-
Co-Director, Health and Policy, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
-
R.D. Wright Biomedical NHMRC Career Development Fellow, Deakin University
-
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Glasgow
-
Scientia Professor & Head of the School of Psychiatry, UNSW Sydney
-
Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
-
Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney
-
NHMRC Peter Doherty Biomedical Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor, School of Medicine, Neuroscience Research Australia
-
Clinical Lecturer, University of Cambridge
-
Professor, The University of Queensland
-
Director Clinical Trials and Professor Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology
-
Lancaster University
-
Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
-
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University
-
Theodore J. Castele Professor of Medical History, Case Western Reserve University
