New studies spotlight a sweat-based lithium monitor, how mood stabilizers affect thinking, and first-of-its-kind research on perinatal mood in fathers living with bipolar. In the thousands of years ...

Can lithium’s effect on daily activity patterns reveal who will benefit from treatment? A six-week trial finds circadian shifts emerge early, before mood improves, hinting at a biological clue to ...

A wearable sensor could vastly improve treatment and drug safety for millions of patients who take lithium for bipolar disorder. Lithium is a highly effective treatment for bipolar disorder, but the ...

Could a decades-old treatment for bipolar disorder be the key to slowing memory loss that comes with age? Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh think so. Led by Ariel Gildengers, professor of ...

From recent research on trauma to advances in genetics, here are 5 new developments in the world of bipolar disorder. While everyone’s journey with bipolar disorder is individual, no one has to travel ...

For many people who have bipolar I, lithium is that most elusive of pharmacological treatments, the “magic bullet”—a single intervention that completely eliminates the symptoms of a disease. Since the ...

A study this week in the journal Nature found that the loss of lithium, a naturally occurring element in the brain, could be an early sign of Alzheimer’s and a powerful driver of the disease, which ...

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