One difficulty is that bipolar is not a single disorder but a spectrum of conditions, rendering the one-size-fits-all ...

Alzamend Neuro announced the completion of a device designed by Tesla Dynamic Coils, to monitor lithium levels in the brain, which will help researchers identify therapeutic target doses for a range ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have identified associations between bipolar disorder and rare loss-of-function variants ...

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.

Lithium, also known by its brand name Lithobid, is a medication that has been used for decades to help treat manic episodes of bipolar disorder. Although it is an older drug, the exact way it ...

Manic episodes can be more severe in the case of bipolar 1 disorder and less severe ... at a time or transition from one drug to another. Lithium, for example, is a commonly prescribed mood ...

For this reason, anyone for whom lithium is prescribed for bipolar disorder should have their thyroid hormone levels checked before they start on lithium, as well as a month or so later and then ...

Drugs used to treat patients with bipolar disorder vary in teratogenic potential. Although first trimester lithium use is associated with Ebstein's anomaly, the risk was overestimated in the past.