The evidence is amassing that alterations in brain energy metabolism are the first cause of all psychiatric disorders, from anxiety to schizophrenia, autism to Alzheimer’s disease. The metabolic ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have been diagnosed from the outside in, through behavior, mood, and memory ...

A stressful year leads to anxiety. Lasting isolation gives way to depression. An old trauma nags until it becomes paralyzing.

Source: Nick Youngson/Wikimedia Commons. When I was diagnosed with bipolar I disorder, I was in the midst of a severe manic episode with psychotic features. I was rail-thin and exercising ...

Using lab-grown brain tissue, researchers uncovered complex patterns of neural signaling that differ subtly between healthy ...

Cognitive functioning in bipolar disorder encompasses a broad spectrum of neuropsychological domains, including verbal memory, executive function, attention, and processing speed. These deficits, ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, reveal today in Nature Genetics associations between bipolar disorder and rare loss-of-function variants in two genes. Bipolar disorder is ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, reveal today in Nature Genetics associations between bipolar disorder and rare loss-of-function variants in two genes. Bipolar disorder is ...

— -- Brian Brennan, M.D. is the associate director for translational neuroscience research in the biological psychiatry laboratory at McLean Hospital and instructor in psychiatry at Harvard ...