Discover how the body’s sleep-wake clocks and dopamine-driven rhythm, influence bipolar mood swings, offering novel treatment ...

Without treatment, bipolar disorder may cause mood episodes. People may alternate between high periods, known as manic episodes, and low periods, or depressive episodes. During a manic episode ...

New research suggests that mood swings in bipolar disorder are regulated by two clocks: the body’s 24-hour circadian rhythm ...

Researchers have identified a second dopamine-driven "clock" in the brain that works alongside the biological 24-hour cycle, ...

A brain rhythm working in tandem with the body's natural sleep-wake cycle may explain why bipolar patients alternate between ...

Once the patient is stable and medical causes of an acute delirium have been eliminated, treatment of the ... and dementia as well as bipolar disorder, manic phase.

The protein kinase C (PKC) signaling cascade has been identified as a direct biochemical target for the treatment of ... of 16 inpatients in the manic phase of bipolar disorder.

Future research is needed to determine if these new agents are effective in the prophylaxis of manic symptoms and the treatment of the depressed phase of bipolar disorder. The primary reason for ...

A brain rhythm working in tandem with the body's natural sleep-wake cycle may explain why bipolar patients alternate between mania and depression ... Hope for new treatments: Silencing the ...