Mania and hypomania are disorders where chemical imbalances in the brain cause an abnormally and persistently elevated mood. While this may sound useful or even enjoyable, in reality, these conditions ...

Mania, in which mood and energy level are extremely elevated for at least a week, and hypomania, which is less severe and lasts at least four days, are the defining features of bipolar spectrum ...

Two new family studies 1,2 that demonstrate independent patterns of inheritance for mania and depression challenge the current conceptualization of bipolar mood disorder. The implications for genetic ...

Mania, in which mood and energy level are extremely elevated for at least a week, and hypomania, which is less severe and lasts at least four days, are the defining features of bipolar spectrum ...

The goal of this study is to investigate the familial transmission of the spectrum of bipolar disorder in a nonclinical sample of probands with a broad range of manifestations of mood disorders. The ...

I sleep deeply and need less. No longer eight to nine hours. I’m fine with six to seven. My eyes pop open, and thoughts flutter faster than I can catch them. An early morning walk and colours sparkle ...

Patients with major depression who experience an episode of antidepressant-associated hypomania (AAH) may be able to resume antidepressants without AAH recurrence, a 3-year follow-up study suggests.