Imagine wading through severe depression for years, taking medication after medication, with no relief. Now, envision discovering that what you were facing was not major depression but bipolar ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My friend recently bought a new car on a whim and announced he was leaving on a cross-country trip without planning a destination or duration. Now he’s uninterested in any activity ...

Baylor College of Medicine received nearly $10 million in funding from the NIH BRAIN Initiative to study effective treatments for the depressive phase of bipolar disorder. In the span of five years, ...

Dr. Harold Koenig answers the question: 'What Is Depression?' — -- Question: What is the difference between depression and manic depression (bipolar disorder)? Answer: Depression and manic ...

Psychiatric disorders can share common genetic influences, which means parts of DNA can be at the root of more than one mental condition, new research has found. The study, led by researchers at Texas ...

I specialize in treating Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar, Schizophrenia, Sleep disturbances and PTSD amongst many other mental health illnesses. I am a board certified family psychiatric nurse ...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry suggests that chronic cannabis use may not be associated with cognitive ...

Scientists successfully induce bipolar depression in mice within 24 hours after transplanting human gut bacteria.