You’ve heard about the latest study published out of STEP-BD (large-scale multi-site clinical study on bipolar disorders) revealing clear benefits of intensive psychotherapy in treating …

A Psychiatric Advance Directive (PAD) is a legal document with instructions about exactly what type of mental health treatments you prefer in an emergency. If …

Reader Hank Roberts left some terrific comments on my earlier post about light and dark and how they affect sleep and bipolar cycles. …

New research identifies the Clock gene involvement in mania. Mice without the gene exhibited mania-like behaviour. Up to now there has been no animal …

Dr. Jim Phelps of PsychEducation.org keeps track of just about every kind of therapy, proven and emerging, medicinal and not, for bipolar disorders. …

Two freely available publications on bipolar disorder are chock full of wellness info for people affected, and both are super for passing along to family …

Estrogens and progesterone are not just sex hormones that influence ovulation and reproduction; they also affect a large number of cognitive and affective functions.

New brain …

NAMI has reprinted Beating the Marriage Odds, the cover article from the current issue of bp Magazine about marriage and bipolar disorders. …

From the Edge 2007 Question of the Year, “What are you optimistic about?” Marc Hauser answered with the hopeful idea of eliminating …

Woman’s bipolar disorder creates chance to serve others from Anchorage Daily News is an interview with a woman who is unable to work full-time …

Merry Monday. It’s a Monday, just another day of the week, right? But no escaping that it is Christmas. No matter which religious holiday you …

Eli Lilly’s best-selling atypical antipsychotic drug Zyprexa (generic name olanzapine) was marketed to primary care physicians for off-label use in dementia, according to …