Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that causes dramatic shifts in a person’s mood, energy and ability to think clearly.

SAN DIEGO -- Certain children may be misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, and a diagnostic category introduced in DSM-5 may capture these children better, researchers reported here. In a retrospective ...

Ellen Frank, Ph.D., a distinguished psychologist and member of the DSM 5 workgroup on bipolar disorders, recently lamented that the DSM IV criteria for bipolar disorder mixed type were too stringent.

Among the forces for eviction of the small unicorns of child bipolar disorder from DSM 5 is the proposed diagnosis of Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD). The DSM 5 criteria for this ...

The soon-to-be released fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) will likely further confuse the diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder (BD), according ...

An improvement in the ability to properly diagnose patients with mood disorders is an ongoing goal that is made both easier and more difficult (less simplistic) with an increased understanding of the ...

Bipolar disorders include several disorders of emotion, energy and thought that are characterized by biphasic mood episodes of mania or hypomania and depression and are expressed as recurrent episodes ...

Understanding bipolar disorder goes beyond its diagnostic checklist to the everyday symptoms that shape each individual’s ...

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 ...

My psychiatrist first floated the idea that I don’t have bipolar disorder months ago, when we were spending another session dissecting my history of disasters. That’s what you do in therapy, in case ...

Today is World Bipolar Day. According to Mental Health America, an estimated 2.3 million Americans have bipolar disorder, also called manic-depressive illness. A person with bipolar disorder can go ...

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 ...