The diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents has risen fortyfold since 1994, according to a study released Monday. But researchers partly attributed the dramatic rise to doctors ...

Lizzie Duszynski-Goodman is a journalist living in the Midwest with her husband and two young children. Her work explores the intersection of mental health, wellness and parenting. She is the former ...

With more than one million American children now on mood-stabilizing drugs and a 4,000% surge in diagnoses of juvenile bipolar disorder and ADHD, it's time we knew more about the history of these ...

The diagnosis of “bipolar disorder” is tossed around these days with alarming regularity. Declaring with great seriousness that someone is bipolar now means that because their moods change rapidly ...

Successful treatment for bipolar disorder rests on two pillars—medication and therapy. With the right dose of the right medicine, a bipolar person can become stable enough to function in the world, ...

Bipolar disorder is one of the most serious mental health conditions that is going unreported due to the lack of awareness about the issue. The condition is one that is known to cause very intense and ...

Antidepressants are used to treat acute depression in patients with bipolar I disorder, but their effect as maintenance treatment after the remission of depression has not been well studied. We ...