For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) were treated as distinct and unrelated psychiatric disorders.

Bipolar patients tend to have gray matter reductions in frontal brain regions involved in self-control (orange colors), while sensory and visual regions are normal (gray colors). Source: Courtesy of ...

Pea-sized brains grown in a lab have for the first time revealed the unique way neurons might misfire due to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, psychiatric ailments that affect millions of people ...

A new study, led by USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI), will explore structural alterations in the brains of people with bipolar disorder (BD), a chronic ...

Recent analysis of human brain tissue suggests that a small and often overlooked region deep within the brain may play a central role in bipolar disorder. Researchers found that neurons in the ...

Tiny lab-grown brains are offering an unprecedented look at how schizophrenia and bipolar disorder disrupt neural activity. Researchers found distinct electrical firing patterns that could identify ...

Understanding the Brain’s Response to Bipolar Disorder Psychiatrists and researchers are coming to appreciate that memory lapses and other neurocognitive problems — disorganization, groping for words, ...

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that affects how a person feels, thinks, and acts. People with bipolar disorder ...

Reduced Gray Matter may be seen in bipolar patients on atypical antipsychotics Source: Michèle Hilbers/Unsplash While atypical anti-psychotics (AAPs) are a vital part of treating disorders with ...

The first systematic review on the effects of bipolar medications on the gut microbiome furthers our understanding of the connection between the gut and the brain in patients treated for bipolar ...