Yesterday, I couldn’t stand being inside my skin. It felt like a prison, this body of mine that didn’t know what it wanted or why it was here. I squirmed through the day, fussing and eating and eating ...
Some patients with bipolar disorder suffer mixed states, defined in DSM as manic episodes with depressive or dysphoric features. These states are exacerbated by antidepressants and preferentially ...
NEW YORK, March 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ITCI), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for central ...
Bipolar disorder can cause mixed states of mania and depression; this mix can lead to an increased risk of suicide, since sufferers may simultaneously experience both the symptoms of depression (such ...
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 ...
Schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder are two conditions that have many differences between them. A class of medicines called antipsychotics can be used to treat both conditions but may cause unwanted ...
One of the largest ever studies of patients with untreatable bipolar disorder has shown that ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) was able to reduce suicide risk by 84% in high-risk patients, as well as ...