Surveys indicate that up to 70% of patients with bipolar disorder are incorrectly diagnosed with unipolar or major depression. Because traditional antidepressant therapy can destabilize this ...

Editor's note: Suicide is a devastating outcome of depression, and patients with bipolar disorder spend more time depressed than manic. Clinicians who treat people with this mental illness must use ...

Mariah Carey has revealed she was diagnosed with bipolar II disorder back in 2001. The 48-year-old musician “didn’t want to believe it” at the time, but she has recently begun treating her disorder ...

With more than one million American children now on mood-stabilizing drugs and a 4,000% surge in diagnoses of juvenile bipolar disorder and ADHD, it's time we knew more about the history of these ...

An estimated 5.7 million adults in the US — about 2.8 percent, according to the National Institute of Mental Health — are diagnosed with bipolar disorder. It's a complex and wide-ranging mental ...

After "the hardest couple of years I’ve been through,” Mariah Carey is opening up about a battle with bipolar disorder that began in 2001 after a public breakdown. And while it's been a rocky road to ...

David Healy, a former secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, is the author of over 120 articles and 14 books, including The Antidepressant Era, The Creation of Psychopharmacology ...