Bipolar News

Flu While Pregnant May Quadruple a Child’s Risk of Bipolar

May 15th, 2013
Flu While Pregnant May Quadruple a Child’s Risk of BipolarA new study funded by the National Institutes of Health discovers a pregnant mothers' exposure to the flu may have extreme mental health ...

Flu During Pregnancy May Hike Risk for Bipolar Disorder in Kids

May 9th, 2013
Flu During Pregnancy May Hike Risk for Bipolar Disorder in KidsMothers who catch the flu during pregnancy may be almost four times more likely to have a child who develops bipolar disorder, according ...

Body Obsession Linked to Disordered Brain Wiring

April 30th, 2013
Body Obsession Linked to Disordered Brain WiringIn a new study, Jamie Feusner, M.D., and colleagues report that individuals with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) have, in essence, global "bad wiring" in their brains ...

Schizophrenia Patients Often Mistake Angry Expression for Fear

April 27th, 2013
Schizophrenia Patients Often Mistake Angry Expression for FearPatients with schizophrenia have a hard time recognizing angry facial expressions, often mistaking them for fear, according to a new ...

How Do Bipolar Drugs Work?

April 12th, 2013
How Do Bipolar Drugs Work? Although modern pharmacology has developed formulas to aid people with mental illness, the method by which the drugs actually work is often ...

Seasonal Patterns Found in Online Mental Illness Searches

April 10th, 2013
Seasonal Patterns Found in Online Mental Illness Searches  Online searches for all major mental illnesses tend to follow seasonal patterns, according to a new study -- suggesting that mental illnesses may be ...

Heavy, Frequent Cannabis Use Linked to Mental Illness

April 3rd, 2013
Heavy, Frequent Cannabis Use Linked to Mental IllnessA new study suggests people with mental illness are more than seven times as likely to use marijuana weekly than ...

Reporting Feelings Involves Multiple Brain Areas

March 28th, 2013
Reporting Feelings Involves Multiple Brain AreasNew research suggests that when humans communicate emotions, they are actually experiencing a synthesis of three processes that occur in separate ...

People With Serious Mental Illness Can Lose Weight, Too

March 23rd, 2013
 People With Serious Mental Illness Can Lose Weight, Too  People with serious mental illnesses — such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression — can lose weight and keep it off ...

Early On, Schizophrenia Marked By Worse Cognitive Problems Than Bipolar

March 23rd, 2013
Schizophrenia Marked By Worse Cognitive Problems Early On Than BipolarAlthough patients with bipolar disorder, bipolar psychosis, and schizophrenia share several early risk factors, patients with schizophrenia often have more severe cognitive problems during ...