A new study by researchers at King's College London has split schizophrenia risk into two genetically distinct pathways. One is characterized by a shared genetic risk with bipolar disorder and ...

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition characterized by extreme mood swings, with alternating periods of depression and manic episodes. Past research suggests that bipolar disorder has a strong ...

Researchers from the University of Adelaide are hopeful a recent biological discovery could lead to the precision treatment of bipolar disorder (BD). About 2.2% of the Australian population has a form ...

A new genomic study isolates a mania-specific factor that explains over 80% of bipolar disorder’s genetic risk, tying it to ...

A sweeping new peer-reviewed study published in Genomic Psychiatry has introduced a concept that could reshape how psychiatrists and geneticists think about mental illness: genetic specificity.

Researchers at King’s College London and the University of Florence have, for the first time, identified the specific genetic blueprint of mania, the defining feature of bipolar disorder. Bipolar ...

Experts do not know precisely what causes bipolar disorder, but if a person has a sibling or parent with this condition, they are more likely to have it. According to the National Institute of Mental ...