An expert perspective — grounded in clinical knowledge and lived experience with bipolar — clears up the confusion. Trigger warning: this article contains a clinical discussion of suicide, which may ...

Parents often say a teen's mood changes from minute to minute. But mood changes are normal in adolescents. They're still developing effective ways to manage their feelings, says Kristin Francis, MD, a ...

Precise changes in the connectivity between neurons caused by an imbalance of gut bacteria may help explain depressive ...

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a chronically recurring condition involving moods that swing between the highs of mania and the lows of depression. Depression is by far the most ...

Everyone experiences emotional highs and lows throughout their lives. When we receive the call that we got the job, we are happy and may want to celebrate. When we hear that our company will be ...

But for a portion of pregnant and postpartum women who screen positive for depression, the true diagnosis is something else. Around 1 in 5 women initially diagnosed with postpartum depression will ...