As with so many other forms of mental illness, the common understanding of bipolar disorder is wrong in a meaningful way. People tend to think the syndrome entails heightened sensitivities to one’s ...

Growing up in northern Virginia, Ola was a skinny and anxious preteen. She got good grades, but she was withdrawn and easily distracted. She ate little; the textures of some foods did not seem right.

Mood tracking can be an effective tool for managing and preventing bipolar disorder episodes. Here’s how it works. Living with bipolar disorder can be overwhelming at times. The shifts between ...

Bipolar disorder can be a devastating and disabling psychiatric illness that often begins in young people and then runs an episodic clinical course. Do individuals with bipolar disorder get better?

(A) Time-courses of mutual information (MI in bits) estimated between the gamma power and the reward (blue) and punishment (red) PE signals. The solid line and the shaded area represent the mean and ...

Abstract: In this paper, a new two-code keying approach to enable bipolar encoding in high-rate spectral-amplitude-coding optical code-division multiple-access (SAC-OCDMA) systems is suggested. The ...

Having bipolar disorder -- a serious mental illness that can cause both manic and depressed moods -- can make life more challenging. It also comes with a higher risk of dying early. Now, a study puts ...

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Women are more likely than men to develop bipolar 2 disorder, a subtype of the condition characterized by longer and more frequent episodes of depressive symptoms than bipolar 1. Bipolar disorder is a ...

In the news or on social media, we hear the term “bipolar disorder” a lot. Whether it’s celebrities opening up about their diagnoses or an investigation finding that a person has struggled with the ...